Likelihood

Noun

 * 1) The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state of being probable.
 * In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
 * The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
 * 1)  Shorthand for likelihood function; the probability that a real world experiment would generate a specific datum, as a function of the parameters of a mathematical model.
 * 2) Likeness, resemblance.
 * "There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation." (Sir W. Raleigh)
 * 1)  Appearance, show, sign, expression.
 * "What of his heart perceive you in his face by any likelihood he showed to-day ?" (Shak)

Synonyms

 * likeliness
 * odds

Antonyms

 * unlikelihood

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
likely + -hood

Translations

 * Basque: egiantz
 * Catalan: versemblança
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 * German:
 * Italian:, verisimiglianza
 * Russian: вероятность
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 * Catalan: versemblança
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 * Finnish:
 * Spanish: verosimilitud


 * Finnish: samankaltaisuus, yhdennäköisyys