impracticability

noun

Etymology: From impracticable + -ability.

1. The quality or condition of being impracticable.

   “It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.”

2. An impracticable thing.