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Impossibility vs Impossibly - What's the difference?

impossibility | impossibly |

As a noun impossibility

is something that is impossible.

As an adverb impossibly is

not possibly; in an impossible manner.

impossibility

English

Noun

  • Something that is impossible.
    • Meeting the deadline is an impossibility ; there is no way we can be ready in time.
  • (uncountable) The quality of being impossible.
  • * South
    • They confound difficulty with impossibility .
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , ...he threw himself upon her, and his back being now towards me, I could only take his being ingulph'd for granted, by the directions he mov'd in, and the impossibility of missing so staring a mark...}}
  • (obsolete) Inability; helplessness.
    • (Latimer)

    Antonyms

    * certainty * inevitability * possibility

    impossibly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not possibly; in an impossible manner.
  • To the point of impossibility.
    • The topology problem was impossibly difficult.
  • Contrary to what had been thought possible.
    • Impossibly , after the water receded, the cat was found asleep on a chair jammed in a tree.

    Antonyms

    * possibly

    References

    * * English degree adverbs English modal adverbs