"eventuality" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪˌvɛntjuˈælɪti/, /ɪˌvɛnt͡ʃuˈælɪti/ Forms: eventualities [plural]
Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: Calque of French éventualité, eventual + -ity Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʷem-}}, {{cal|en|fr|éventualité}} Calque of French éventualité, {{suffix|en|eventual|ity}} eventual + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} eventuality (countable and uncountable, plural eventualities)
  1. A possible event; something that may happen. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: contingency, possibility Translations (possible event — see also contingency): éventualité (French), Eventualität [feminine] (German), eshetőség (Hungarian), eventualità [feminine] (Italian), Mäajlichkjeit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), eventualitate [feminine] (Romanian), eventualidad [feminine] (Spanish), eventualitet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-eventuality-en-noun-57qvNoT4 Disambiguation of 'possible event — see also contingency': 77 23
  2. (obsolete, phrenology) An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts. [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Phrenology
    Sense id: en-eventuality-en-noun-R2k8Qvuh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 15 85 Topics: human-sciences, medicine, phrenology, psychology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: eventualize

Inflected forms

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