eventuality

Roget category 151

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.7. Change
›› 1.7.2. Complex change

#151. Eventuality

noun

eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact — matter of fact — naked fact, bare facts, just the facts — phenomenon — advent.
business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding — circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence — opportunity (occasion) 143.
the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general — things in general, affairs in general — the times, state of affairs, order of the day — course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events — ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life — chapter of accidents etc. (chance) 156 — situation etc. (circumstances) 8.

verb

happen, occur — take place, take effect — come, become of — come off, comeabout^†, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on — pass, present itself — fall — fall out, turn out — run, be on foot, fall in — befall, betide, bechance^† — prove, eventuate, draw on — turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up — supervene, survene^† — issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course — pass off etc. (be past) 122.
meet with — experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to — fall to the lot of — be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot — find — endure etc. (feel) 821.

adjective

happening etc. v. — going on, doing, current — in the wind, in the air, afloat — on foot, afoot, on the tapis^† — at issue, in question — incidental.
eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident — memorable, momentous, signal.

adverb

eventually — in the event of, in case, just in case — in the course of things — as things, times go — as the world goes, wags — as the tree falls, cat jumps — as it may turn out, happen.

phrase

that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles — you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring — the plot thickens — breasts the blows of circumstance" [Tennyson]; so runs round of life from hour to hour" [Keble]; sprinkled along the waste of years" [Tennyson].

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