IMPRACTICALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("impracticality" is a kind of...):

inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impracticality"):

idealism (impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are)

Antonym:

practicality (concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities)

Derivation:

impractical (not practical or realizable; speculative)