possibility

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I can't say I'm cured, because there's a possibility I might relapse at some point in the future.

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Quick take

a future prospect or potential; "this room has great possibilities"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of possibility gathered in one view.

noun

a future prospect or potential; "this room has great possibilities"

noun

capability of existing or happening or being true; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired"

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; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for possibility.

noun

a future prospect or potential; "this room has great possibilities"

noun

capability of existing or happening or being true; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired"

noun

a possible alternative; "bankruptcy is always a possibility"

Example sentences

I can't say I'm cured, because there's a possibility I might relapse at some point in the future.

We want human warmth — a possibility of living a more fulfilled, meaningful life.

I am not saying its connected to this, but obviously the possibility exists.

You are clearly yourself not-normal, which is awesome, but take seriously the possibility that you've got weaknesses of your own that need work.

And that's quite apart from the possibility that time travelers would make some modest effort to avoid asking their neighbors about future events.

Another possibility is that they tried to reimplement a C exploit in Javascript without understanding the difference between the languages.

It is a matter of preserving some decent part of your potential upside while giving up the rest to make the upside potential even a possibility for you given the tax risks involved.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy hell, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

Undocumented labor is a more likely possibility, but again, no restaurant or in fact no retail place in Paris will let you take pictures inside their premises without a very strong confrontation.

He said that he understood I had particular circumstances and would accept the possibility of me leaving at some indefinite point in the future as long as it was, say, 4 years off, seeing as he was sticking his neck out for me.