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Improbability vs Impossibility - What's the difference?

improbability | impossibility |

As nouns the difference between improbability and impossibility

is that improbability is the quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood while impossibility is something that is impossible.

improbability

English

Noun

(improbabilities)
  • The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood.
  • That which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

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    impossibility

    English

    Noun

  • Something that is impossible.
    • Meeting the deadline is an impossibility ; there is no way we can be ready in time.
  • (uncountable) The quality of being impossible.
  • * South
    • They confound difficulty with impossibility .
    {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , ...he threw himself upon her, and his back being now towards me, I could only take his being ingulph'd for granted, by the directions he mov'd in, and the impossibility of missing so staring a mark...}}
  • (obsolete) Inability; helplessness.
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    Antonyms

    * certainty * inevitability * possibility