[f. prec. + -ITY: cf. F. éventualité.]
1. Something that may happen; a possible event or occurrence; a contingency.
1852. Lever, Daltons, I. 123. Some experience had … trained him to a tactic of waiting and watching for eventualities.
1855. Browning, Men & Wom., I. 229, Bp. Blougram’s Apol. In that bewildering entanglement Of horrible eventualities.
1878. Lady Herbert, trans. Hübner’s Ramble, I. xii. 184. In certain eventualities this state of things might give rise to grave difficulties.
2. Phrenology. The faculty of observing and remembering the order of succession in events; the supposed ‘organ’ of this faculty.
1828. G. Combe, Const. Man., 72. Individuality and Eventuality, or the powers of observing things that exist and occurrences.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 314. The forehead converges to a central protuberosity, where phrenologists locate eventuality.
