Definition of Possibility

1. Noun. A future prospect or potential. "This room has great possibilities"

Generic synonyms: Expectation, Outlook, Prospect
Derivative terms: Possible

2. Noun. Capability of existing or happening or being true. "There is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired"

3. Noun. A tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena. "He proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"

4. Noun. A possible alternative. "Bankruptcy is always a possibility"
Exact synonyms: Opening, Possible Action
Generic synonyms: Alternative, Choice, Option
Specialized synonyms: Possible
Derivative terms: Possible

Definition of Possibility

1. n. The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

Definition of Possibility

1. Noun. The quality of being possible. ¹

2. Noun. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being. ¹

3. Noun. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Possibility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Possibility

possessorship
possessory
possessour
possessours
possesst
possest
posset
posseted
posseting
possets
possibilia
possibilism
possibilisms
possibilistic
possibilities
possibility (current term)
possibility of reverter
possibilium
possible
possible action
possibleness
possibler
possibles
possibles bag
possiblest
possiblities
possibly
possie
possies
possimism

Literary usage of Possibility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Overproduction, in the sense of excess beyond the possibility of use, ... The usual reasoning about it touches more especially on the possibility of ..."

2. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1878)
"But I pass by everything which derives its possibility from reality in experience, and 1 purpose treating here merely of the possibility of things by means ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literatureby H.W. Wilson Company by H.W. Wilson Company (1908)
"possibility AND PROBABILITY The possibility is that you may not desire a HIGH GRADE A No. 1 TYPEWRITER at the present time. BUT The PROBABILITY is that you ..."

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