improbability

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improbability - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Improbability \Im*prob`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Improbabilities.
     [Cf. F. improbabilit['e].]
     The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also,
     that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
     [1913 Webster]

improbability - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  improbability
      n 1: the quality of being improbable; "impossibility should
           never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability
           of such rare coincidences" [syn: improbability,
           improbableness] [ant: probability]

improbability - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "improbability":
     abnormality, anomaly, bare possibility, conversation piece, curio,
     curiosity, dark horse, exception, fighting chance, gambling chance,
     hardly a chance, hundred-to-one shot, inexpectance, inexpectancy,
     inexpectation, little chance, little opportunity, long odds,
     long shot, museum piece, no expectation, nonesuch, nonexpectation,
     oddity, off chance, outside chance, poor bet, poor lookout,
     poor possibility, poor prospect, prodigiosity, prodigy, rarity,
     remote possibility, slim chance, small chance, strange thing,
     the unforeseen, the unlooked-for, unanticipation, unexpectedness,
     unforeseeableness, unlikelihood, unpredictability,
     unpredictableness, unpreparedness, unreadiness