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Insolubility

noun
1.
The property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve.  Synonym: unsolvability.
2.
The quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid.





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"Insolubility" Quotes from Famous Books



... and is then said to be slaked; but as soon as it meets with fixed air, it is supposed to quit the water and join itself to the air, for which it has a superior attraction, and is therefore restored to its first state of mildness and insolubility in water. ...
— Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances • Joseph Black
... heredity and of individual responsibility which Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes proposes in Elsie Venner, it is strange that a man whom it had sincerely disquieted should present it—not in its own insolubility but—in caricature. As though the secrets of the inherited body and soul needed to be heightened by a bit of burlesque physiology! It is in spite of our protest against the invention of Elsie's horrible plight—a ...
— The Rhythm of Life • Alice Meynell


Words linked to "Insolubility" :   property, insoluble, solvability, solubility, quality


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