untraversability

Noun

untraversability (uncountable)

1. The condition of being untraversable.
   • 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.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...
   • 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...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...

   Synonyms:

   nontraversability

   Antonyms:

   traversability