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eventuality|ɪˌvɛntjuːˈælɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity: cf. F. éventualité.]
1. Something that may happen; a possible event or occurrence; a contingency.
1759Monthly Rev. XX. 448 Our Historian [sc. W. Harte]..uses..eventualities, where contingencies, or contingent events, would be as expressive. 1852Lever Daltons I. 123 Some experience had..trained him to a tactic of waiting and watching for eventualities. 1855Browning Men & Women i. Bp. Blougram's Apol., In that bewildering entanglement Of horrible eventualities. 1878M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble i. xii. 184 In certain eventualities this state of things might give rise to grave difficulties.
2. Phrenology. The faculty of observing and remembering the order of succession in events; the supposed ‘organ’ of this faculty.
1828G. Combe Const. Man. 72 Individuality and Eventuality, or the powers of observing things that exist and occurrences. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 314 The forehead converges to a central protuberosity, where phrenologists locate eventuality. |