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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The fact or state of being possible.
  2. n. Something that is possible.
  3. n. Potentiality for favorable or interesting results: The idea has great possibilities.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The mode of that which is possible; the fact of being possible.
  2. n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
  3. n. Specifically, in law, a chance or expectation; an uncertain thing which may or may not happen. It is near or ordinary, as where an estate is limited to one after the death of another; or remote or extraordinary, as where it is limited to a man provided he shall be married to a certain woman, and then that she shall die, and he be married to another. Wharton.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The quality of being possible.
  2. n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
  3. n. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.
  2. n. That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. capability of existing or happening or being true
  2. n. a future prospect or potential
  3. 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
  4. n. a possible alternative

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English possibilitee, from Old French possibilite, from Late Latin possibilitas ("possibility"), from Latin possibilis ("possible"); see possible. (Wiktionary)

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