unviability

Cannot possibly work

Unviability is the state of being unable to succeed, survive, or function effectively.

A business plan might be rejected for its unviability, or a medical condition might render a pregnancy unviable.

The term appears in technical and formal contexts: The committee cited economic unviability as grounds for canceling the project.

failure

collapse

Sudden structural failure

shutdown · termination · liquidation · dysfunction · malfunction · nonperformance · underperformance · ruin · wreckage · stagnation

impracticality

unfeasibility

Cannot be done

unsustainability · inoperability · impracticability · inefficiency · inconvenience · unmanageability · illogicality · irrationality · inadvisability · unprofitability

futility

hopelessness

State without hope

worthlessness · ineffectiveness · meaninglessness · bleakness · despair · resignation · defeatism · pessimism · disillusionment · fatalism

Opposites
feasibility/practicality

unviabilityviability

Capacity to succeed

feasibility · practicability · workability · achievability · sustainability

biological/medical capacity

unviabilityviability

Capacity to succeed

vitality · survivability · fetal viability · thriving · flourishing

Family

survive, survival, viable, viability, nonviable, revivify, unviable, revivable, viably

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