Crossword clues for eventuality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eventuality \E*ven`tu*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Eventualities. [Cf. F.
The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.
(Phren.) Disposition to take cognizance of events.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1759, "a possible occurrence," from eventual + -ity, on model of French éventualité.
Wiktionary
n. A possible event; something that may happen.
WordNet
n. a possible event or occurrence or result [syn: contingency, contingence]
Wikipedia
Eventuality is a faculty from the discipline of phrenology, which rules the factual memory: the memory for facts and events. It can also be referred to as the historical faculty, and it is reflected in a desire to know and to be informed. The localization is between " individuality" and "comparison."
Definition
Eventuality is one of the several organs that make up the pseudo science of phrenology in which bumps on the outside of the skull provide insight to the character of individuals and aspects of personality. The organs or “bumps” are also referred to as faculties
Size
It is associated with the “recollection of actions, phenomena, occurrences, what has taken place, circumstantial and historical facts”. Furthermore, there are classifications that relate the size of the eventuality to memory recollection. When the eventuality is of average size it has neither a good or bad memory of occurrences. When it is classified as “full” the brain is more retentive and “recollects leading events, and interesting particulars, and has a good memory of occurrences, yet forgets less important details”. A large eventuality “has a clear and retentive memory of historical facts, general news what he has seen heard, read even in detail. A very large eventuality will never forget a single occurrence because they have a passionate desire for information”. Since Eventuality is located in the center of the forehead, a larger faculty will result in a fuller and rounded protuberance emanating from the forehead.
Orientation
Eventuality is commonly associated with another phrenology organ, Individuality. The International Cyclopaedia of 1898 relates these two organs to language by classifying Individuality as the faculty of nouns while Eventuality is the faculty of verbs. While Individuality focuses on perception of existing things, Eventuality perceives more informational criteria such as motion, change, events, and history. Such descriptions of motion might include phrases such as the block falls, the horse gallops, and the river runs. It can be expected that while these two organs are very closely related that they also share a close proximity in location. Eventuality and Individuality are separated via the organ Locality. Eventuality is also enclosed laterally by the organ Time and superiorly by the organ Comparison.
Primary Roles
The Eventuality organ is anatomically situated in the center of the forehead and it is suspected that those who are gifted with Eventuality and Individuality are among the most powerful and intellectual of minds. In general, Eventuality is the organ with a primary role of “recollection of facts, events, occurrences, experiments, history, news, information, circumstances, and business transactions”. It is said that the organ of Eventuality is in fact two organs with separate roles. One organ is primarily responsible for remembering childhood experiences while the other recollects more recent information and communications. Of the intellectual beings that possess a large Eventuality, children are noted as having this largely developed organ and it feeds their desire for stories and imagination as well as observing. These characteristics can be deficient in those with a less developed Eventuality and those individuals will experience lowered observational skills and deprived recollection of information and memory.
Usage examples of "eventuality".
Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.
While it might have seemed unusual for a government to be setting up procedures that allowed their agents to spy on the citizenry, in essence they were just planning ahead for the eventuality that an undercover operation might have to be run some day.
As the tellers have done down through the centuries, you and I have stashed food, as Lokey does, for just such an eventuality.
I guessed that he was thinking how he could use his inheritance to fund his homesteading expedition to Cozakee or some other frontier planet, and that his sisters were not happy to realize that his dream had suddenly become a much more likely eventuality.
The danger is that it invokes only spirits of time, and such monoclinal adjurations risk perturbing the diametric complement, which in the case of time is chance, thus hazarding aberrant and unpredictable eventualities.
If the bunch of programmers who were ingenious enough to put together an elaborate decision-making package, an absurdly large parser, and an incredible number of graphics images, had still not been able to figure out all the eventualities in their little toy, then it had the capacity to run amok and do things they had never thought about.
German troops have been provided in such strength that they can easily cope with any military task in the Danubian region and with any eventualities from any side.
THE RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or a bomb factory, and is prepared for either eventuality.
It seemed that the man had planned for this eventuality, and Midas knew that there was nothing more Electra could do to avoid this man or his shot.
True, Payne would never inherit Montpelier, her dearest wish, but she had become reconciled to this eventuality.
McClellan had planned for this eventuality, assuming that Lincoln would turn to Burnside, who was acceptable to the radicals, rather than to the respected Fitz-John Porter, the only general other than himself capable of facing Lee.
Not a pleasant contemplation, but he had before him an assembly of his accesses, his resources, in the not-inconceivable eventuality of the dowager creating a breach with Ogun and with Sabin.
On this evening, so firmly persuaded was he that he at last had the clue to Hero’s whereabouts, he felt cheerful enough to have eaten his dinner in Half Moon Street, had Mrs Bradgate made any preparation to meet so unexpected an eventuality.
Plan Three was an elaborate escape that Plumm had erected against such an eventuality with false passports, valid air tickets, ready luggage, clothes, disguises and covers, even including passkeys to airplane waiting areas without going through Immigration that had a ninety-five percent chance of success given an hour's notice.
The estimate seemed about right, although the company of mercenary musketeers Borja had kept on hand for just such an eventuality seemed, for the moment, to be sufficient threat to keep them from coming over the walls of the estate or trying to force the gate.