impediment

[Im*ped·i*ment]

An impediment is anything that slows or blocks progress. It can refer to a physical thing, like a fallen tree in the road, or something more intangible, like how piracy is an impediment to the pleasure cruise industry in Somalia.

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That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

Noun
any structure that makes progress difficult

Noun
something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

n.
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

v. t.
To impede.

Impediment

Im*ped"i*ment , n. [L. impedimentum: cf. F. impediment.] That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment.

Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty; incumbrance. -- Impediment, Obstacle, Difficulty, Hindrance. An impediment literally strikes against our feet, checking our progress, and we remove it. An obstacle rises before us in our path, and we surmount or remove it. A difficulty sets before us something hard to be done, and we encounter it and overcome it. A hindrance holds us back for a time, but we break away from it.

The eloquence of Demosthenes was to Philip of Macedon, a difficulty to be met with his best recources, ant obstacle to his own ambition, and an impedimen in his political career.

Impediment

Im*ped"i*ment, v. t. To impede. [R.] Bp. Reynolds.

That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.

To impede.

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Usage Examples

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

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Other Usage Examples

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.