LIKELINESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does likeliness mean? 

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

1. the probability of a specified outcome

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIKELINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The probability of a specified outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

likelihood; likeliness

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

probability (the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event)

Attribute:

likely (has a good chance of being the case or of coming about)

unlikely (has little chance of being the case or coming about)

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

odds (the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring)

Antonym:

unlikeliness (the improbability of a specified outcome)

Derivation:

likely (has a good chance of being the case or of coming about)

likely (likely but not certain to be or become true or real)

likely (expected to become or be; in prospect)