eventuality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: e=ven=tu=al=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

eventuality, n. [Cf. F. éventualité.].

•  The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.  [1913 Webster]
•  Disposition to take cognizance of events.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eventuality, n. (pl. -ies) a possible event or outcome.

THESAURUS

eventuality

accident, aftereffect, aftermath, aftertime, afteryears, aptitude, aptness, bare possibility, by-and-by, by-product, case, chance, circumstance, coming to be, conceivability, conceivableness, condition, conjuncture, consequence, consequent, contingency, contingent, corollary, course ahead, crystal ball, derivation, derivative, determinism, development, distant future, distillate, effect, even chance, event, eventuation, expectation, finality, foresight, forward look, fruit, future, future tense, futureness, futurism, futurity, good chance, good possibility, happening, harvest, hereafter, hope, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, incidence, incident, issue, juncture, legacy, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, logical outcome, materialization, near future, obligation, occasion, occurrence, off chance, offing, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, outlook, outside chance, outside hope, possibility, possibleness, posteriority, potential, potentiality, precipitate, prediction, probability, product, project, proneness, prophecy, prospect, realization, remote possibility, result, resultant, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, small hope, the attainable, the feasible, the future, the morrow, the possible, the sweet by-and-by, thinkability, thinkableness, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, ultimateness, upshot, virtuality, weakness, what is possible, what may be, what might be

ROGET THESAURUS

eventuality

Futurity

N futurity, futurition, future, hereafter, time to come, approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years, morrow, millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future, approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time, destiny, eventuality, heritage, heirs posterity, prospect, foresight, future, to come, coming, next, near, close at hand, eventual, ulterior, in prospect, prospectively, hereafter, in future, kal, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time, eventually, ultimately, sooner or later, proximo, paulo post futurum, in after time, one of these days, after a time, after a while, from this time, henceforth, henceforwards, thence, thenceforth, thenceforward, whereupon, upon which, soon, on the eve of, on the point of, on the brink of, about to, close upon, quid sit futurum cras fuge quaerere.

Eventuality

N 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), 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, situation, happening, 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, 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, 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, so runs round of life from hour to hour, sprinkled along the waste of years.