likeliness

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Definition of likeliness

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
  2. (uncountable, usually)Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
    “The proposed HEA is based on the assumption that each specific error has a certain impact on a system/aircraft state whilst the crew's likeliness to commit this error is decreasing with an increasing number of safeguards against it.”
    “To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.”
  3. (uncountable, usually)Suitability; agreeableness.
    “A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.”
  4. (uncountable, usually)Likeness; similarity.
    “No surely, Reason is both the Gift and Image of God, and every Degree of its Improvement is a farther Degree of Likeliness to him.”

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Etymology

From Middle English liklinesse, lyklinesse; equivalent to likely + -ness.

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