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say it: pah-suh-BIL-uh-tee
possibility is a noun meaning "a future prospect or potential". It carries 4 recorded senses.
capability of existing or happening or being true
“there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired”
a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
“a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory”
“he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices”
a possible alternative
“bankruptcy is always a possibility”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for possibility come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.