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Eventually vs Presumably - What's the difference?

eventually | presumably |

As adverbs the difference between eventually and presumably

is that eventually is in the end while presumably is able to be sensibly presumed.

eventually

English

Adverb

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  • In the end.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage ,
    • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
  • (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail.

    • Synonyms

    * at last * finally * yet * ultimately * in the end

    See also

    * frequently

    See also

    * sooner or later

    presumably

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Able to be sensibly presumed.
  • * 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
    • Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
  • *
    • Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably , the seat of consciousness.

    Synonyms

    * (able to be presumed) presumptively