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Possibility

noun

(pl. possibilities)

A future prospect or potential.

Capability of existing or happening or being true. Synonym: possibleness.

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

A possible alternative. Synonyms: opening, possible action.

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"Possibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... this life, men who are in sin retain the possibility of obtaining everlasting happiness: not so those who are lost in hell, who, in this respect, are in the same case as ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... (5/8. If we suppose the case of the discovery of a skeleton of a Greenland whale in a fossil state, not a single cetaceous animal being known to exist, what naturalist would have ventured conjecture on the possibility of a carcass so gigantic being supported on the minute crustacea and mollusca living in the frozen seas of the ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... expressionless as ever. She well knew her action of the previous evening had severed the cordial relations formerly existing between her and Mr. Merrick's nieces, and determined to avoid the possibility of a snub by keeping aloof from them. She greeted whoever approached her station in her usual gracious and cultured manner, and refrained from ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne

... passed I returned once more to New York. I had reached a time of life when the possibility of death must be as steadily reckoned with as the processes of digestion. And I wished, before I lay down in the narrow house, to revisit the scenes of my former happiness. I took the same furnished lodging to which we had gone after our wedding. I lay all night, but ...

— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... tellt! But dinna think she gaed to ony place whaur she was kent," sobbed Agnes, "or appeart to ony to be ither than a puir auld body 'at gaed aboot for hersel'. Dinna think aither 'at ever she tellt a lee, or said a word to gar fowk pity her. She had aye afore her the possibility o' bein' ca'd til accoont some day. But I'm thinkin' gien ye had applyt to her an' no to me, ye wad hae h'ard anither mak o' a defence frae mine! Ae thing ye may be sure o'—there's no a body a ...

— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

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