What do you think it means when a person says ‘Endless possibilities’? There are endless possibilities in our present world, as science continues to evolve.
One may predict that the next five years will see some advancements in technology which our present selves are strange to. The probability of that happening is even wider in the next fifty years, and much wider in the next five hundred years.
We also can’t tell how many sectors will improve and how much improvement will be seen. There are endless possibilities for those too.
The term, ‘Endless possibilities’ can be used in several different ways. Below are more than 10 different phrases that can be used in place of ‘Endless possibilities’.
11 Other Ways to Say “Endless Possibilities”
- Nothing is impossible
- Anything can happen
- All bets are off.
- Unpredictable
- It cannot be ruled out
- All is possible
- Can’t be so sure.
- Can’t be prepared.
- Contingent
- Limitless possibilities
- Can only make guesses
Nothing is impossible
This is a very common clause when people talk about possibilities and impossibilities. This clause can be used the same way as ‘Endless possibilities’ since it refers to the same thing and passes the same message.
We can see this as a literal way of explaining the meaning of ‘Endless possibilities’ since it does not need any explanation to be understood unless the reader or listener is new to English language.
When you say ‘Endless possibilities’, you are saying there is no limit to what can happen and be considered possible. There is no end to what may come to existence. This states that there are not only a myriad of things that can happen but we can’t know all of them.
When you say ‘Nothing is impossible’, you are saying anything can be possible. This statement is indirectly comparing reality with human thoughts and imaginations. When you say ‘Anything’, it is limited to what the mind can think of.
However, the mind, on the other hand, has no limit to what it can accommodate. The mind can have several different thoughts and some may be new and strange to the thoughts of another person. The phrase is indirectly saying that anything the mind can conjure must not be ruled out as impossible.
Anything can happen
Anything can happen, as stated earlier. There are endless possibilities, as people say, meaning we can’t tell the limit of what can happen and what can’t. However, before a person can point to a thing that can or cannot happen, the thing must be thought of first.
It cannot be a thing without first being imagined. People, before concluding whether something can happen or not, have to think of the thing and consider all what they consider possible and impossible.
The scenario first plays in their mind before they conclude that certain things cannot go certain ways and should be considered impossible.
Since the mind has thought of it, it has become something and should be considered a part of ‘anything’. Therefore, when a person says ‘Anything can happen’, he or she must be able to consider his or her wild imaginations as parts of the endless possibilities the world may see.
One can say ‘Anything can happen’ when trying to get oneself prepared for or against certain things. However, most times when people say this, they still rule out certain things as impossible for certain reasons.
All bets are off.
When a person says ‘All bets are off’, can you guess what it implies? It is actually very easy to tell what it means. Asides from the fact that we are only mentioning clauses similar to ‘Endless possibilities’, the literal words composed in this statement should suggest its meaning.
‘All bets are off’ means possible outcome of something cannot be guessed certainly by anyone. For a football match or any other gambling game, there is usually very little to choose from.
Sometimes, it is just one out of two and, in this case, one of two people who choose different things will be wrong while the other will be right. In some cases, there are more than two possibilities but there is still a limit to how many options a person gets to choose from.
This particular clause does not often deal with endless possibilities. Rather, it has to deal with high level of uncertainty in the available options.
In a game of football, the outcome can be so uncertain that you can’t guess what will happen at the end. People are often confident that a game will go a certain way. However, things can take an unexpected turn and they can’t be sure of the same option that gave them so much confidence earlier.
The uncertainty can be so high that you refuse to stake a bet, knowing the probability of losing your money is as high as the probability of winning the game.
While ‘Endless possibilities’ may also refer to several options with difficulty in making a choice, ‘All bets are off’ only deals with over-the-top levels of uncertainty.
Unpredictable
‘Unpredictable’ is one word, unlike the other options mentioned earlier. There is no special meaning to this word. Virtually everyone knows what it means and we often use it in different cases. At times, people say a person is predictable.
When they say a person is predictable, it means they can guess what move the person will make or what he or she will say in certain situations. Before you can say a person is predictable, you must have studied him or her in similar situations.
However, a man or woman cannot actually be predictable in his or her free decisions. The functioning and malfunctioning of computers are predictable because they are programmed to work in certain ways and certain faults lead to certain signs.
A man, on the other hand, has a mind that processes so many things, remembers and thinks of so many things which may influence his decision.
People can often tell the difference between right and wrong decisions but not in every case, especially not when you are dealing with a real person who knows more about his or her life and goals than you do.
When you say something is unpredictable, you can’t guess the outcome with any certainty.
It cannot be ruled out
Some people may have misunderstood the meaning of this clause. The fact that it is on the list should enlighten you on what it actually means since every expression on this list refer to the same meaning.
The clause, ‘It cannot be ruled out’, may be mistaken to be the same as ‘Inevitability’ or ‘inescapability’. Some people often interpret it as being an happening that cannot be prevented.
However, it simply refers to a prediction that cannot be overlooked, even when there are likelier opposing predictions. This does not directly refer to endless possibilities. Rather, it refers to certain situations that may seem very unlikely but must till be considered possible.
In other words, one has to be prepared for this less likely situation because there are endless possibilities. When one decides to consider several possibilities that cannot be ruled out, we will have an endless list of possible circumstances.
All is possible
This can be considered the direct meaning of ‘Endless possibilities’ but it is still not entirely perfect. Before something can be considered endless, a person must have tried to reach its end.
style=”font-weight: 400;”> The same thing must be done before we can say something has an end. If we haven’t reached the end, we can only guess when or where the end is. We can say something is endless but only after trying and failing to reach its end.
We can define ‘Endless possibilities’ as our inability to say how much is possible and how much isn’t. This is where ‘All is possible’ has its difference. ‘All is possible’ means everything is possible and, by everyone, we mean everything that the mind can think of.
As mentioned earlier, possible and impossible things are always created in the mind and imagined since a person has to think of it in his or her mind before concluding whether it is possible or not.
Since the mind can always conjure thoughts and ideas, if ‘All’ is truly possible, it would be truly endless as the minds of billions of people keep creating new things. However, ‘Endless possibilities’ does not always mean everything is possible.
Can’t be so sure.
While this may not directly refer to how endless possibilities are, it supports the idea that we are unable to be certain in some situations where we have to guess.
In a football match, we, as supporters, can assess the strengths and weaknesses of our choice of team. We can also assess the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing team and compare to that of our favorite team.
With this comparison, we may be able to guess how both teams will perform in the game. However, we just cannot be so sure of how the game will go.
While one may have predicted different things to happen in the game, it may just go in several ways different from your original prediction.
As mentioned earlier, this statement is not often used to refer to the existence of many options but rather used to refer to great uncertainty due to the possibility of other options.
Can’t be prepared.
While this statement is not used directly to refer to the existence of endless possibilities, it is very much related. When you are going for a test that can go one of two ways, all you have to do is to prepare for both possible situations. This should give you a hint it what this statement refers to.
When there are endless possibilities, it will be impossible to be prepared. It is also impossible to prepare if there are just so many possibilities than a man can be prepared for. When it is hard to get prepared, the uncertainty of the outcome becomes extremely high.
You can compare this to a football team playing against another team of footballers while both teams are oblivious to each other’s tactics. They can’t be prepared, therefore, there are several possible things that may go wrong for both teams in that game.
Contingent
This is simply another word for ‘possible’. When something is contingent, it is not inevitable and definitely not impossible.
When two teams go against each other, there may be a team with better players, tactics, and communication than the other team. These factors can make most people stake their bets on the better team winning. However, it is only possible for the better team to win.
It is not inevitable and clearly not impossible. This equally applies to the inferior team. It is possible for the inferior team even though the odds are against them. It is not inevitable just as it is not impossible.
Limitless possibilities
The same explanation given to ‘Endless possibilities’ is given to this phrase. There is only one word changed but it means just the same. ‘Endless’ refers to something that has no end.
‘Limitless’ refers to something that has no limit. While these two words can be different in certain contexts, they are the same in this context.
Before we can conclude that a certain things have no limits, someone must have tried to figure out the limits. Someone must have stopped at a point to conclude and some people may still predict certain limits which cannot be confirmed till the predicted limit is exceeded.
When you say something has limitless possibilities, you can’t count all the possibilities and neither can you know all of them. The mind of a human is limitless. We can’t draw a line on what can possibly go on in the mind of a human being.
While our thoughts are usually drawn from things we’ve seen, things we’ve read, things we’ve heard, and things we have come across in one way or the other, the knowledge we acquire evolves in our minds and creates new ideas. We can’t draw a limit to how much our acquired knowledge can evolve.
Can only make guesses
When there are so many possible outcomes, we can only guess what the outcome will be. It may be hard to make a guess if there are no hints to what the right outcome may be.
However, there may be several hints pointing to one outcome, the fact that there are several other possible outcomes means you can only guess. You are only sure if there are no other possible outcomes for something.