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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Outcome \Out"come\, noun That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. ''The logical outcome.'' --H. Spenser.
All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thought. --J. C. Shairp.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
outcome
noun
1: something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio" [syn: {result}, {resultant}, {final result}, {termination}]
2: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: {consequence}, {effect}, {result}, {event}, {issue}, {upshot}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "outcome": accomplishment, aftermath, answer, artifact, ascertainment, avenue, blowhole, brainchild, by-product, channel, child, chute, clearing up, coinage, composition, concoction, consequence, consequent, corollary, cracking, creation, creature, crowning achievement, debouch, decipherment, decoding, denouement, departure, derivation, derivative, determination, development, disentanglement, distillate, distillation, door, effect, egress, egression, emunctory, end, end product, end result, escape, essence, estuary, event, eventuality, eventuation, exhaust, exit, exodus, explanation, extract, extraction, finding, finding-out, floodgate, flume, follow-up, forthcoming, fruit, going out, handiwork, harvest, interpretation, invention, issue, legacy, logical outcome, loophole, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, mintage, new mintage, offshoot, offspring, opening, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, out, outcoming, outfall, outgate, outgo, outgoing, outgrowth, outlet, pore, port, precipitate, product, production, reason, resolution, resolving, result, resultant, riddling, sally port, sequel, sequela, sequelae, sequence, sequent, sluice, solution, solving, sorting out, spiracle, spout, tap, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, wake, way out, weir, work, working, working-out
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
OUTCOME, noun A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in an exception a proof of the rule the wisdom of an act is judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.
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