uncrossableness en · NOUN
Etymology
From uncrossable + -ness.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The quality of being uncrossable.
To think that the main northern road should be blocked to vehicular traffic by the uncrossableness of the Hunter for six months is simply scandalous, and doesn’t redound much to the credit of the vaunted energy of the Roads and Bridges Department.
1890 August 14, “Aberdeen”, in Second Sheet to The Maitland Mercury, Maitland, N.S.W., published 16 August 1890, page [7], column 1:He reached out a hand to stop the storm. And when he did, he touched the veil; he felt its uncrossableness.
2007 August, Gregory Spencer, “Veils Unveiled”, in Guardian of the Veil: A Three-Dimensional Tale, New York, N.Y.: Howard Books, →ISBN, part 1 (Taken, the Father), page 4:these reasons that run like a river between us give a certain poignancy and ache to the distance and irremediable uncrossableness of it
2013, Chuck Miller, “for John”, in Parsecs to Go, Poems of Protest, Muscatine, Ia.: Prairie Rose Press, →ISBN, page 51:The sharpness of the contrasts in the story reflects the depth of the gulf between rich and poor in the present life. Its uncrossableness and the extreme opposition between rich and poor explain the future torment of the rich.
1986, Luise Schottroff, Wolfgang Stegemann, translated by Matthew J. O’Connell, “‘The Poor Have Good News Preached to Them’: The Earliest Tradition about Jesus of Nazareth”, in Jesus and the Hope of the Poor, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, published 1 July 2009, →ISBN, section III (Jesus, Hope of the Poor), subsection 6 (The Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus), page 28: