untraversability

From untraversable +‎ -ity or un- +‎ traversability.

untraversability (uncountable)

1. The condition of being untraversable.

   Synonym: nontraversability

   Antonym: traversability

   • 1908, F[ossey] J[ohn] C[obb] Hearnshaw, “The Labours of the Late-Mediæval Lawyers”, in Leet Jurisdiction in England, Especially as Illustrated by the Records of the Court Leet of Southampton (Publications of the Southampton Record Society), Southampton, Hampshire: Cox & Sharland, […], part III (History of Leet Jurisdiction), chapter XXXIX (Definition of Leet Jurisdiction), page 345:

     Further, they struggled to fix and to purify the judicial procedure of the leets, and so to lessen the danger to liberty and property which sprang from the irresponsibility of the sheriffs and stewards, the depravity of the jurors, and the untraversability of their verdicts.

   • 1987, Pat Bigelow, “The Ontology of Boredom”, in Kierkegaard and the Problem of Writing (Kierkegaard and Postmodernism), Tallahassee, Fla.: University Presses of Florida; Florida State University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     In boredom each instant is naught but the insistence upon its own irremissibility its refractoriness, and its impropriety. As such the instant produces itself—enacts itself by revealing itself and reveals itself by enacting itself—as oppressive untraversability, unremitting untraversability for it is the exhaustion of possibility, the foreclosing on the inbreaking of possibility.

   • 1990, A[drian] W[illiam] Moore, “Application of the solution”, in The Infinite (The Problems of Philosophy: Their Past and Present), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 1991, →ISBN, part 1 (The History), chapter 2 (Aristotle), page 43:

     Aristotle wanted to emphasize that the untraversability of, say, a bezelless ring (or a uniform circular racecourse, to use our own earlier example), though it provided scope for an endless journey of sorts, was not his concern.