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IMPROBABILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being improbable
Example:
the improbability of such rare coincidences
Synonyms:
improbability; improbableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("improbability" is a kind of...):
precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "improbability"):
unlikelihood; unlikeliness (the improbability of a specified outcome)
Antonym:
probability (the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event)
Derivation:
improbable (not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred)
