Synonyms for possibility
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Chance — an option or choice, usually used in context with future events
chance, potentiality, possible, contingency, option, alternative, eventuality, choice
2. Hypothesis
Other
hope, opening, possibleness rare
Definitions
- n. 1
An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
- n. 2
The quality of being possible.
'There is little possibility of that happening' 'I'd say there's rather a strongish possibility that it won't.'
Related words
- Word family
- possible
Forms
- Plural
- possibilities → chances, potentialities, possibles, contingencies…
Example sentences
- chance Many would jump at the chance to live in New York.
- option I could not find the right menu option on the ATM.
- contingency There is neither contingency nor free will.
- opening I hereby declare the opening of the Olympic Games.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| possibility | steady | |
| chance | rising | |
| option | rising | |
| contingency | steady | |
| potentiality | falling | |
| opening | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- hope1
- 6 letters
- chance1, choice1, theory2, option2
- 7 letters
- opening3
- 8 letters
- possible3
- 10 letters
- hypothesis4
- 11 letters
- alternative4, contingency4, eventuality6
- 12 letters
- potentiality, possibleness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (theory2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- possibilité
- Italiano
- possibilità
- Català
- possibilitat