Definition of "improbability" []

• The quality or condition of being improbable. (noun)
• Something improbable. (noun)

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• "And Chullunder Ghose describes it as "the inside-out-ishness of paradox pursued to ultimate improbability, which is the essence of the quest for truth.""
• "The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated."
• "Crowds, being incapable both of reflection and of reasoning, are devoid of the notion of improbability; and it is to be noted that in a general way it is the most improbable things that are the most striking."