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UNLIKELINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unlikeliness mean? 

UNLIKELINESS (noun)
  The noun UNLIKELINESS has 1 sense:

1. the improbability of a specified outcomeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


UNLIKELINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The improbability of a specified outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

unlikelihood; unlikeliness

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

improbability; improbableness (the quality of being improbable)

Antonym:

likeliness (the probability of a specified outcome)

Derivation:

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

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

unlikely (having a probability too low to inspire belief)


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