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likeliness

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

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

  1. The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
  2. 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. Suitability; agreeableness.

    A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.

  4. 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.