chance vs tabula rasa

tabula rasa vs chance

chance and tabula rasa both are nouns.

chance is an adjective but tabula rasa is not an adjective.

chance is a verb but tabula rasa is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
tabula rasa	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tabula rasa is a hyponym of chance; that is, tabula rasa is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chance:

chance: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
tabula rasa: an opportunity to start over without prejudice

Other hyponyms of chance include brass ring, day, clean slate, fresh start, audience, hearing, hunting ground, occasion, opening, room, say, crack, shot, street, throw.

chance (noun)	tabula rasa (noun)
a risk involving danger	a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible	an opportunity to start over without prejudice
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
the possibility of future success

chance (adjective)	tabula rasa (adjective)
occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

chance (verb)	tabula rasa (verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
be the case by chance

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