Contingency Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Contingency

incident
An occurrence that interrupts normal procedure or functioning; a mishap:
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case
An enclosing frame or casing.
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chance
Chance is defined as happening by unexplainable reasons, luck, a risk, or the likelihood of something happening.
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crossroads
(By extension) A centrally located position
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likelihood
The fact of being likely to happen; probability
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odds
Odds are points giving an advantage to the weaker opponent in a contest, or the likelihood that something will happen.
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predicament
A definite class, state or condition.
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emergency
A condition of urgent need for action or assistance:
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exigency
The demands or requirements of a situation (usually plural.)
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eventuality
A possible event; something that may happen.
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adjuvant
Containing an adjuvant:
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beholden
Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.
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conditional
Containing, implying, or dependent on a condition or conditions; qualified; not absolute
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contingent
That may or may not happen; possible
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empirical
(Philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
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iffy
Doubtful; uncertain:
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liable
Subject to the possibility of; likely (to do, have, get, etc. something unpleasant or unwanted)
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subject
Prone; disposed:
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accidentality
(Rare) Quality of being accidental; accidentalness.
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casualty
An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
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event
A social gathering or activity:
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fortuitousness
The quality of being fortuitous
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fortuity
Chance or chance occurrence
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juncture
A critical moment in time.
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peril
(Insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
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prospect
The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
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risk
The chance of injury, damage, or loss; dangerous chance; hazard
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uncertainty
(Statistics) The estimated amount or percentage by which an estimated or calculated value may differ from the true value.
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contingence
A joining or touching.
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Antonyms for Contingency

definiteness
The state or quality of being definite.
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certainty
Inevitability:
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surety
Something that makes sure or gives assurance, as against loss, damage, or default; security; guarantee
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reality
A real entity, event or other fact.
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truth
Reality; actual existence
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Words Related to Contingency

possibility
The definition of a possibility is something that may be true or might occur, or something that can be chosen from among a series of choices.
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probability
(--- Statistics) A number, ranging from zero to one, expressing either the projected likelihood that a specific event will occur or the observed ratio of the number of actual occurrences to the number of possible occurrences.
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accident
The definition of an accident is an event that happens without being planned.
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possible
Something that may occur or be done
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budgetary
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Contingency Sentence Examples

  • This type of contingency was not one we planned for.

  • Bernstorff was bound by treaty to assist Russia in such a contingency, but he took care that the assistance so rendered should be as trifling as possible, to avoid offending Great Britain and Prussia.

  • The British admiral, when informed that the French were at sea, justified Napoleon's estimate of his probable course in such a contingency, by making a useless cruise to Egypt.

  • This contingency had been studied, and preparations for a new line had begun, during the Austrian offensive in 1916, and Cadorna had ordered the work to be continued during the interval.

  • And though the Stoic doctrine of determinism did not, when applied to moral problems, advance much beyond the reiteration of arguments derived from the universal validity of the principles of causality, nor the Epicurean counter-assertion of freedom avoid the error of regarding chance as a real cause and universal contingency as an explanation of the universe, it was nevertheless a real step forward to perceive the existence of the problem.

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