Probably vs Possibility - What's the difference?
probably | possibility |
In all likelihood.
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, title= The quality of being possible.
A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
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, title= An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
As an adverb probably
is in all likelihood.As a noun possibility is
the quality of being possible.probably
English
Alternative forms
* (colloquial)Adverb
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Synonyms
* (in all likelihood) likely, perhaps, maybe, possibly, presumably, most likely, doubtless, in all probability, perchance, as likely as not, as like as notpossibility
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Noun
(possibilities)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}