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Impedimental vs Impedimenta - What's the difference?

impedimental | impedimenta |

As an adjective impedimental

is of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.

As a noun impedimenta is

equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.

impedimental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
    • Things so impedimental to success. — G. H. Lewes.
    (Webster 1913)

    impedimenta

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
  • * 1949 : George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p20
    • Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

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