Scenario vs Possibility - What's the difference?
scenario | possibility |
An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.
An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 23
, author=Alasdair Lamont
, title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
The quality of being possible.
A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
As nouns the difference between scenario and possibility
is that scenario is while possibility is the quality of being possible.scenario
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Hearts were keen to avoid a repeat of the scenario at this stage of last season's competition, when they found themselves two goals down inside the opening quarter of an hour.}}
Derived terms
* worst case scenarioSee also
* scenarii (hypercorrect plural) ----possibility
English
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.}}