possibility

Roget category 470

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.3. Materials for reasoning
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#470. Possibility

noun

possibility, potentiality — what may be, what is possible etc. adj. — compatibility etc. (agreement) 23.
practicability, feasibility — practicableness etc. adj.. contingency, chance etc. 156.

verb

be possible etc. adj. — stand a chance — admit of, bear.
render possible etc. adj. — put in the way of.

adjective

possible — in the cards, on the dice — in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible — compatible etc. 23 — likely.
practicable, feasible, performable, achievable — within reach, within measurable distance — accessible, superable^†, surmountable — attainable, obtainable — contingent etc. (doubtful) 475, (effect) 154.
barely possible, marginally possible, just possible — possible but improbably, (improbable) 473 — theoretically possible.

adverb

possibly, by possibility — perhaps, perchance, peradventure — maybe, may be, haply, mayhap.
if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente [Lat.], D.

verb

— as luck may have it.

phrase

misericordia Domini inter pontem et misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent [Lat.] — the glories of the Possible are ours" [B. Taylor]; anything is possible — in theory possible, but in practise unlikely.

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