Possibility

Quick meaning: Possibility is a noun meaning The quality of being possible.

Meaning

The quality of being possible.

More Meanings

1. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
2. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
3. (obsolete) Capability, power or capacity to act.

Example Sentences

Mycelial lives are so other, their possibilities so strange.

'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• possibilities

Synonyms for possibility

Depending on context, synonyms include chance, contingency, contingent, eventuality, potentiality, possibleness.

Antonyms for possibility

Common opposites include impossibility, impossibleness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include possibleness, hypothesis, opening, theory, eventuality, probability.

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