Possibility : nf (word from imperial Latin possibilities).
The word “possibility” has several meanings:
1. Character of what can be achieved; being possible.
Consider the possibility of a conflict (contingency).
The possibility of an agreement (chance).
Logic: One of the modes of modal logic.
Quote from the French novelist, biographer, storyteller and essayist André Maurois (1885-1967): “Between this father and this son, there is no language to communicate, no possibility of exchange”.
2. Possible thing, which can happen, which can be done.
Consider all possibilities (cases).
There are only two possibilities (alternative).
What if we refuse? It's a possibility.
3. Capacity, power (to do something) (faculty, means, opportunity).
If I have the opportunity to join you; if I have the chance.
Give, leave someone the possibility of (and infinitive).
4. Plural: Means available; what can be expected, drawn from a person or a thing.
To the extent of its possibilities.
Know your possibilities (limit).
Material and financial possibilities; intellectual.
Everyone must pay according to their possibilities (According to their means).
It's beyond my possibilities, too expensive for me.
Quotation from the French writer Albert Camus (1913-1960): “The accumulation of victims far exceeded the possibilities offered by our […] cemetery”.
Achievable performances (by an instrument, a vehicle, etc.).
Synthesizer that has great possibilities.
Opposites of possibility: impossibility, need.