Opportunity or possibility?
We use opportunity to talk about a situation in which we can do something that we want to do. Opportunity is most commonly followed by a verb in the to-infinitive form, or of + -ing form: …

possibility | American Dictionary

possibility
noun[ C ]
us/ˌpɑs·əˈbɪl·ə·t̬i/

possibilitynoun[C] (ACHIEVEMENT)

something that can be done or achieved, or that can exist:
One possibility is to hire more people.

possibilitynoun[C] (POSSIBLE HAPPENING)

something that might or might not happen or exist:
There’s a possibility of snow tonight.

Examples of possibility

possibility
Certainly, the objective economic situation did not provide many possibilities for public policy, other than those showing sympathy to market reform.
We hope that this paper will go some way to raising awareness of the possibilities for exploiting this work.
I identify important possibilities, ignored in the formal models, which serve materially to reduce the profitably of the strategy to a plaintiff.
Since choosing between these possibilities is difficult and somewhat tangential to our point in this paper, we will not discuss the matter further here.
There are standard methods for demonstrating either of the first two possibilities.
Further research on socio-economic factors and health should bring a better understanding of causal relationships and even offer possibilities of social and medical intervention.
As theories of concepts based on the possibilities of action are developed, new sets of explanations become possible.
Embracing the idea that representations may be graded opens up many interesting conceptual possibilities.
Linguistic control systems enable human beings to transcend individual experience and allow the contemplation of possibilities that never have been, and never could be, experienced.
The short answer to this question is no, but the emphasis and possibilities of some modelling work may be changed.
Experienced engineers have rapidly become engrossed with the possibilities of the approach and intrigued by some of the results when given access to hands-on experimentation.
Obviously, they drew on their actual technical possibilities to produce the compositions.
There are probably different possibilities, each of which in turn results in different patterns.
Later in a music play episode some children would start to explore the possibilities of crossing the midline.
Do we consult sufficiently among each other about the challenges and possibilities we face?
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Collocations withpossibility

possibility

These are words often used in combination with possibility.

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alternative possibility
One alternativepossibility would be to use a set instead of a bag in the specification, enabling us to use idempotence as well.
definite possibility
That is a definitepossibility that will have to be addressed in future studies.
distinct possibility
The distinctpossibility of forebrain damage in this case cannot be excluded.
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