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Possibility vs Imaginary - What's the difference?

possibility | imaginary |

As nouns the difference between possibility and imaginary

is that possibility is the quality of being possible while imaginary is imagination; fancy.

As an adjective imaginary is

existing only in the imagination.

possibility

English

Noun

(possibilities)
  • The quality of being possible.
  • A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
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  • An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

    • Synonyms

    * option * choice * contingency * See also

    Antonyms

    * impossibility

    Derived terms

    * logical possibility * possibility theory

    Related terms

    * impossibility * possible * potence * potency * potent * potentate * potential * potentiality * power

    External links

    * *

    imaginary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • existing only in the imagination
  • * Addison
    • Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
  • (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

    • Derived terms

    * imaginarily * imaginariness

    Noun

    (imaginaries)
  • Imagination; fancy.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
    • By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
  • (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.

    • External links

    * (Imaginary number)