Meaning of LIKELIHOOD
| Pronunciation: | | 'lIklee`hûd
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| | Definition: | | [n] the probability of a specified outcome |
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| | Synonyms: | | likeliness, odds |
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| | Antonyms: | | unlikelihood, unlikeliness | | |
| | See Also: | | probability | |
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| | Definition: | | \Like"li*hood\ (-l[i^]*h[oo^]d), n. [Likely + -hood.]
1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. [Obs.]
What of his heart perceive you in his face By any
likelihood he showed to-day ? --Shak.
2. Likeness; resemblance. [Obs.]
There is no likelihood between pure light and black
darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation.
--Sir W.
Raleigh.
3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability;
verisimilitude. --Tennyson.
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| | Related Terms: | | aptitude, aptness, bare possibility, best bet, chance, conceivability, conceivableness, contingency, even chance, eventuality, expectation, expectations, fair expectation, favorable prospect, good chance, good opportunity, good possibility, hope, hopes, liability, liableness, likeliness, main chance, obligation, odds, odds-on, odds-on chance, off chance, outlook, outside chance, outside hope, possibility, possibleness, potential, potentiality, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, proneness, prospect, prospects, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, remote possibility, small hope, sporting chance, sure bet, sure thing, tendency, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, verisimilitude, virtuality, weakness, well-grounded hope, what is possible, what may be, what might be |
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