What does possibility mean?
Possibility means The quality of being possible..
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/ˌpɒs.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ · noun
The quality of being possible..
'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
Mycelial lives are so other, their possibilities so strange.
VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe, And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was, I would lay a ſurer trumpe, Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.
Use possibility when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Possibility means The quality of being possible..
Common synonyms include chance, contingency, contingent, eventuality.
Possible antonyms include impossibility, sure thing, impossibleness.
'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.
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