improbability

[ im-prob-uh-bil-i-tee, im-prob- ]

/ ɪmˌprɒb əˈbɪl ɪ ti, ˌɪm prɒb- /

the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.

something improbable or unlikely.

Origin of improbability

First recorded in 1590–1600; improbable + -ity

Besides, the Dalai Lama had already laughed about its improbability.

From Fashion Player to Photographer Monk |Nina Strochlic |December 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Improbability of this sort is the stuff that makes for reasonable doubt.

The DSK Rush to Judgment |Gerald L. Shargel |July 1, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Dick, indeed, would not again deny her request; but had he not reckoned on the improbability of her renewing it?

Sanctuary |Edith Wharton
Only its improbability is not so extremely great as to make it useless to consider the evidence in its favour.

The Truth of Christianity |William Harry Turton

The passage is evidently torn from its context and has been much abbreviated in order to accentuate its improbability.

In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) |Fridtjof Nansen
One writer comments ambiguously, in guarded language, suggesting the improbability of the horrible practices alleged by Grant.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist |Alexander Berkman
If it be unavoidable, however, it should be outside the tragedy, like the improbability in the Oedipus of Sophocles.

The Poetics |Aristotle