IMPROBABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does improbableness mean? 

• IMPROBABLENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPROBABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being improbable

  Familiarity information: IMPROBABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPROBABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being improbable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

improbability; improbableness

Context example:

the improbability of such rare coincidences

Hypernyms ("improbableness" is a kind of...):

precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "improbableness"):

unlikelihood; unlikeliness (the improbability of a specified outcome)

Derivation:

improbable (too improbable to admit of belief)

improbable (not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred)

improbable (having a probability too low to inspire belief)