ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Likeliness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Likeliness is a noun meaning The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.

Meaning

The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.

More Meanings

  1. Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
  2. Suitability; agreeableness.
  3. Likeness; similarity.

Example Sentences

To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.
A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
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.
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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for likeliness

Depending on context, synonyms include odds, likelihood.

Antonyms for likeliness

Common opposites include unlikelihood, unlikeliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include likelihood, odds, probableness, probability, liability, possibility.

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