'Improbability' definitions:
Definition of 'improbability'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being improbable; "impossibility should never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability of such rare coincidences" [syn: improbability, improbableness] [ant: probability]
Definition of 'Improbability'
From: GCIDE
- Improbability \Im*prob`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Improbabilities. [Cf. F. improbabilit['e].] The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'improbability'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- anomaly,
- bare possibility,
- conversation piece,
- curio,
- curiosity,
- dark horse,
- exception,
- fighting chance,
- gambling chance,
- hardly a chance,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- inexpectance,
- inexpectancy,
- inexpectation,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- museum piece,
- no expectation,
- nonesuch,
- nonexpectation,
- oddity,
- off chance,
- outside chance,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- rarity,
- remote possibility,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- strange thing,
- the unforeseen,
- the unlooked-for,
- unanticipation,
- unexpectedness,
- unforeseeableness,
- unlikelihood,
- unpredictability,
- unpredictableness,
- unpreparedness,
- unreadiness