- chance
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I
(fortuity) noun
advantage, befalling, casus, circumstance, event, favorable time, fortuitousness, good fortune, happening, occasion, opening, suitable circumstance, time
associated concepts: arise by chance, last clear chance
II
(possibility) noun
aptitude, attainability, bare possibility, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, favorable prospect, hope, imaginability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, liability, likelihood, possibleness, potential, potentiality, probability, prospect, spes, uncertainty, unexpectedness, unpredictability
associated concepts: chance verdict, games of chance
foreign phrases:
- Casus fortuitus non est supponendus. — A chance happening is not to be presumed- Casus fortuitus non est sperandus, et nemo tenetur devinare. — A chance happening is not to be expected, and no one is bound to foresee itIII index access (opening), bet, coincidental, contingency, fortuitous, gamble, haphazard, happenstance, hazard, likelihood, lottery, occasion, opportunity, possibility, potential, privilege, probability, prospect (outlook), quirk (accident), random, risk, speculate (chance), speculation (risk), suspicion (uncertainty), unexpected, unintentional, unwitting, venture
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006