'Contingency' definitions:
Definition of 'contingency'
From: WordNet
noun
A possible event or occurrence or result [syn: eventuality, contingency, contingence]
noun
The state of being contingent on something
Definition of 'Contingency'
From: GCIDE
- Contingency \Con*tin"gen*cy\, n.; pl. Contingencies. [Cf. F. contingence.]
- 1. Union or connection; the state of touching or contact. "Point of contingency." --J. Gregory. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass. [1913 Webster]
- Aristotle says we are not to build certain rules on the contingency of human actions. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance. [1913 Webster]
- The remarkable position of the queen rendering her death a most important contingency. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An adjunct or accessory. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
- Syn: Casualty; accident; chance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'contingency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accessory,
- accident,
- accidental,
- addendum,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- adventure,
- appendage,
- appurtenance,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- auxiliary,
- bare possibility,
- blind bargain,
- borderline case,
- break,
- casualty,
- chance,
- chance hit,
- circumstance,
- collateral,
- coming to be,
- conceivability,
- conceivableness,
- condition,
- conjuncture,
- contingent,
- correlation,
- crisis,
- crossroads,
- dependence,
- double contingency,
- emergency,
- even chance,
- event,
- eventuality,
- eventuation,
- exigency,
- extra,
- fluke,
- fortuity,
- freak accident,
- gamble,
- good chance,
- good possibility,
- guess,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hazard,
- hope,
- incidence,
- incident,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- interrelation,
- juncture,
- liability,
- liableness,
- likelihood,
- likeliness,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- lucky shot,
- materialization,
- mere chance,
- nonessential,
- not-self,
- obligation,
- occasion,
- occurrence,
- off chance,
- open question,
- opportunity,
- other,
- outside chance,
- outside hope,
- pass,
- piece of guesswork,
- pinch,
- possibility,
- possibleness,
- potential,
- potentiality,
- probability,
- proneness,
- prospect,
- question,
- realization,
- relativity,
- remote possibility,
- secondary,
- sight-unseen transaction,
- small hope,
- strait,
- subsidiary,
- superaddition,
- supplement,
- the attainable,
- the feasible,
- the possible,
- thinkability,
- thinkableness,
- toss-up,
- touch and go,
- turning point,
- undecided issue,
- unessential,
- virtuality,
- wager,
- weakness,
- what is possible,
- what may be,
- what might be,
- zero hour