impediment

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɛdɪmənt/ === Noun === impediment (plural impediments) A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance. A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech. 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences of the Christian Religion, London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308,[3] Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes […] (chiefly in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta. ==== Synonyms ==== hindrance obstruction obstacle See also Thesaurus:hindrance ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== impede impedimenta ==== Translations ==== === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “impediment”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “impediment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin impedimentum. === Noun === impediment n (plural impedimente) impediment ==== Declension ====