What's the difference between impracticability and impracticable?
Impracticability
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility.
(n.) An impracticable thing.
(n.) Intractableness; stubbornness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(2) In cystic hydatid disease, whenever radical surgical procedures are impracticable, albendazole treatment can achieve significant clinical results.
(3) The transplantation may be replaced by implantation of a cardioverter if the former is impracticable or will be performed in future.
(4) The transplantation of organs between species (xenografting) has long been considered impracticable due to the immunological barriers allegedly induced by the antigenic disparity of distantly related species.
(5) One wonders what his defense minister Ehud Barak and the former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, and other Israeli leaders who disagree with him in his analysis of the urgency of the Iranian nuclear threat, think of his public commitment to such a fraught – that understates it – such a perilous and perhaps impracticable military operation.
(6) It is impracticable to reduce cadmium concentrations in sludge below certain levels.
(7) Simple insertion, rapid stabilization and reaction time less than 60 s allow use in the initial stages of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) where invasive monitoring is often impracticable.
(8) Sixty-three per cent regarded the boiling and filtration of portions of their domestic water as an additional burden, cumbersome and impracticable.
(9) When the primary site makes resection impracticable, the response to irradiation and chemotherapy is encouraging.
(10) Presenting the clinical data and regarding percutaneous paracentetic nephrostomy as an optimum technique for the clinical practice, the authors concluded UCS to be impracticable.
(11) Owing to the high incidence of side effects, treatment with more than 75 mg terodiline chloride per day is impracticable.
(12) Nevertheless, they are impracticable to perform and unsuitable for routine use in many individuals.
(13) In addition, volumetric determination of tumour size by means of region-of-interest technique proved to be rather impracticable in clinical routine compared to bidimensional measurement.
(14) Influenza vaccine is impracticable in most developing countries.
(15) This conventional system is impracticable for some laboratories that process enormous numbers of blood cultures and for these laboratories the infrared Bactec system is recommended.
(16) It is suggested that jejunal interposition should be kept for cases in which the particular shortness of the gastric stump makes simple re-insertion of the duodenum into the stomach impracticable.
(17) Derivatization with diazomethane instead of methanolic HCl turned out to be impracticable.
(18) Despite indirect evidence in support of this claim, the impracticability of monitoring oestrogen and progesterone levels in large numbers of women for prolonged periods of time has meant that no direct demonstration of the effect has been made.
(19) Similarly, a variety of other coating and attachment devices have proved to be unsatisfactory or impracticable for large scale investigations.
(20) The usual methods of choice, selective abdominal angiography and colonoscopy, may be impracticable or fail.
Impracticable
Definition:
(a.) Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.
(a.) Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.
(a.) Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.
Example Sentences:
(1) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(2) In cystic hydatid disease, whenever radical surgical procedures are impracticable, albendazole treatment can achieve significant clinical results.
(3) The transplantation may be replaced by implantation of a cardioverter if the former is impracticable or will be performed in future.
(4) The transplantation of organs between species (xenografting) has long been considered impracticable due to the immunological barriers allegedly induced by the antigenic disparity of distantly related species.
(5) One wonders what his defense minister Ehud Barak and the former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, and other Israeli leaders who disagree with him in his analysis of the urgency of the Iranian nuclear threat, think of his public commitment to such a fraught – that understates it – such a perilous and perhaps impracticable military operation.
(6) It is impracticable to reduce cadmium concentrations in sludge below certain levels.
(7) Simple insertion, rapid stabilization and reaction time less than 60 s allow use in the initial stages of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) where invasive monitoring is often impracticable.
(8) Sixty-three per cent regarded the boiling and filtration of portions of their domestic water as an additional burden, cumbersome and impracticable.
(9) When the primary site makes resection impracticable, the response to irradiation and chemotherapy is encouraging.
(10) Presenting the clinical data and regarding percutaneous paracentetic nephrostomy as an optimum technique for the clinical practice, the authors concluded UCS to be impracticable.
(11) Owing to the high incidence of side effects, treatment with more than 75 mg terodiline chloride per day is impracticable.
(12) Nevertheless, they are impracticable to perform and unsuitable for routine use in many individuals.
(13) In addition, volumetric determination of tumour size by means of region-of-interest technique proved to be rather impracticable in clinical routine compared to bidimensional measurement.
(14) Influenza vaccine is impracticable in most developing countries.
(15) This conventional system is impracticable for some laboratories that process enormous numbers of blood cultures and for these laboratories the infrared Bactec system is recommended.
(16) It is suggested that jejunal interposition should be kept for cases in which the particular shortness of the gastric stump makes simple re-insertion of the duodenum into the stomach impracticable.
(17) Derivatization with diazomethane instead of methanolic HCl turned out to be impracticable.
(18) Despite indirect evidence in support of this claim, the impracticability of monitoring oestrogen and progesterone levels in large numbers of women for prolonged periods of time has meant that no direct demonstration of the effect has been made.
(19) Similarly, a variety of other coating and attachment devices have proved to be unsatisfactory or impracticable for large scale investigations.
(20) The usual methods of choice, selective abdominal angiography and colonoscopy, may be impracticable or fail.