improbability

[US]/im,prɔbə'biləti/
[UK]/ɪmˌprɑbəˈbɪlɪti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. something that is highly unlikely to happen, something that may not necessarily occur.

Example Sentences

The biases latent in every character, black or white, drive home the improbability of racial reconciliation in America.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

He has been busy with his SMs during his interview, which in the interviewer's aspect could connotate the sickness of the poser and the improbability of intercoursing with bona fides.

the improbability of winning the lottery

the story's plot hinges on the improbability of the main character's survival

despite the improbability, she decided to take a chance

the proposal was met with skepticism due to its improbability

the team's victory seemed to defy all improbabilities

the film's success was attributed to its ability to overcome improbabilities

the scientist's theory was dismissed as pure improbability

the project's completion was seen as an improbability by many

the novel's ending was criticized for its reliance on improbabilities

the play's success was based on its exploration of human improbabilities

Real-world Examples

But let's skip the improbabilities and imagine that time could be stopped somehow.

Source: If there is a if.

Due to the extensive improbability of this, numerous protests across the election erupted across the country.

Source: Realm of Legends

Since when has any fanatic been held back by the improbability of their righteous mission?

Source: True Blood Season 4

But this frail fence of vague improbabilities was soon hurled down by a rush of distinct agonizing fears.

Source: Adam Bede (Volume 3)

Fifthly, the wages of labour in different employments vary according to the probability or improbability of success in them.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part One)

" Still, if Renauld had an affair with a woman called Bella, there seems no inherent improbability in his having another with Madame Daubreuil" .

Source: Murder at the golf course

In a mere fifteen thousand years, humans went from hunting and gathering to creating such improbabilities as the airplane, the Internet, and the ninety-nine cent double cheeseburger.

Source: World History Crash Course

" Certainly life emerging on Earth does not seem to be such a wild improbability that we require places elsewhere" .

Source: Selected English short passages

I had almost determined to take this course, when the conviction suddenly came to me that the whole thing was a gigantic joke, a fabrication of rank improbability.

Source: Three mysterious people

Now, there was no reasonable evidence to implicate any person but this woman, and on the improbabilities of her having been able to do it Mr. Jaggers principally rested his case.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

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