unpracticability

There is something charming about their unpracticability, about their very incapacity for the coarse business of politics.

What I Saw in America 1905

It was not Stevens's rancor, nor Sumner's unpracticability, but the serious conviction of the North, educated and tempered by long debate and bitter sacrifice, which ordained that the work of freedom must not be thrown into ruins.

The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878

Objectless, purposeless, unmeaning, disappearing, and eluding all grasp when any occasion for action arises, when anything is to be done, as sufficiently appears from the miserable unpracticability of the latter chapters of the 'Chartism,' where he comes forward to give directions for what is to be done. "

Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876