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Impossibility vs Inability - What's the difference?

impossibility | inability |

As nouns the difference between impossibility and inability

is that impossibility is something that is impossible while inability is lack of the ability to do something; incapability.

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

    inability

    English

    Noun

    (inabilities)
  • lack of the ability to do something; incapability
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
    • The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.