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DEFINITIONS OF: possibility

n capability of existing or happening or being true

“there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired”

Synonyms:: possibleness

Antonyms:: impossibility, impossibleness
incapability of existing or occurring

Types:: show 18 types...; hide 18 types...; conceivability, conceivableness
the state of being conceivable; achievability, attainability, attainableness
the state of being achievable; potency, potential, potentiality
the inherent capacity for coming into being; chance, opportunity
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; latency
the state of being not yet evident or active; chance, prospect
the possibility of future success; brass ring
a rich opportunity or a prize; day
a period of opportunity; clean slate, fresh start, tabula rasa
an opportunity to start over without prejudice; audience, hearing
an opportunity to state your case and be heard; hunting ground
a place where opportunities abound; occasion
an opportunity to do something; opening
opportunity especially for employment or promotion; room
opportunity for; say
the chance to speak; crack, shot
a chance to do something; street
a situation offering opportunities; throw
a single chance or instance

Type of:: being, beingness, existence
the state or fact of existing

n a future prospect or potential

“this room has great possibilities”

Type of:: expectation, outlook, prospect
belief about (or mental picture of) the future

n a possible alternative

“bankruptcy is always a possibility”

Synonyms:: opening, possible action

Types:: possible
something that can be done

Type of:: alternative, choice, option
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

n 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

Types:: show 17 types...; hide 17 types...; hypothetical
a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.; gemmule
the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity; framework, model, theoretical account
a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; conjecture, speculation
a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); assumption, supposal, supposition
a hypothesis that is taken for granted; historicism
a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history; computer simulation, simulation
(computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; conclusion
an intuitive assumption; base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; mean sun
a theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds; Copernican system
(astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun; Ptolemaic system
(astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center; M-theory
(particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong; string theory
(particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings; given, precondition, presumption
an assumption that is taken for granted; basic assumption, constatation, self-evident truth
an assumption that is basic to an argument; stochastic process
a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)

Type of:: concept, conception, construct
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

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