EVENTUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eventuality mean? 

• EVENTUALITY (noun)
  The noun EVENTUALITY has 1 sense:

1. a possible event or occurrence or result

  Familiarity information: EVENTUALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENTUALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A possible event or occurrence or result

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

contingence; contingency; eventuality

Hypernyms ("eventuality" is a kind of...):

happening; natural event; occurrence; occurrent (an event that happens)

 Context examples 

Uranus, the planet that brings events that you would never have thought possible, will act up, so you must be prepared for all kinds of eventualities.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Let me pay you one in return when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept the latter.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)