improbability

Other forms: improbabilities

Definitions of improbability
  1. noun
    the quality of being improbable
    “impossibility should never be confused with improbability”
    “the improbability of such rare coincidences”
    synonyms: improbableness
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    antonyms:
    probability
    the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event
    types:
    unlikelihood, unlikeliness
    the improbability of a specified outcome
    type of:
    precariousness, uncertainness, uncertainty
    being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
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