Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.


The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,...

Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,...

Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,...

Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them,...