możliwość

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Polish

Etymology

From możliwy +‎ -ość.[1][2] Compare Kashubian mòżlëwòsc, Silesian możliwość, and Ukrainian можли́вість (možlývistʹ). First attested in 1830.[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔˈʐli.vɔɕt͡ɕ/
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  • Rhymes: -ivɔɕt͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: mo‧żli‧wość

Noun

możliwość f

  1. possibility (fact that something can happen)
    Synonyms: ewentualność, możność
  2. (in the plural) capability, potential; chance, occasion, opportunity (chance for advancement, progress or profit; power or ability to generate an outcome)
    Synonyms: gratka, okazja, potencjał, predyspozycje, szansa, zdolność

Declension

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), możliwość is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 96 times in essays, 12 times in fiction, and 10 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 179 times, making it the 322nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[4]

References

  1. ^ Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “móc”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “możliwy”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Haliczanin (in Polish), volume 2, 1830, page 12
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “możliwość”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 256

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