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Eventuality   /əvˌɛntʃuˈælɪti/  /ivˌɛntʃuˈælɪti/   Listen
Eventuality

noun
(pl. eventualities)
1.
A possible event or occurrence or result.  Synonyms: contingence, contingency.






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"Eventuality" Quotes from Famous Books



... actually sever, the Ottoman communications between Anatolia and the theatres of war in Palestine and in Mesopotamia. But at dates subsequent to the winter of 1914-15 the enemy had fully realized that this was the case, was in a position to provide against the eventuality, and had taken ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

... elementary part the molecules are so combined as to set free a force whereby the cell is enabled to attract new molecules and so to grow, and the whole organism exists only through the reciprocal action of the single elementary parts.... In this eventuality it is the elementary parts that form the active element in nutrition, and the totality of the organism can be indeed a condition, but on this view it cannot be ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

... marvellously apathetic and ignorant. I would wager not a little that by searching in the retired quarters, some might be found who believe they are still governed by Napoleon III., and have never heard of the war with Prussia, except as a not improbable eventuality. ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton



Words linked to "Eventuality" :   natural event, contingence, occurrence, occurrent, happening, contingency



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