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Webster 1913 Edition
Likelihood
Like′li-hood
(līk′lĭ-hoŏd)
, Noun.
[
Likely
+ -hood
.] 1.
Appearance; show; sign; expression.
[Obs.]
What of his heart perceive you in his face
By any
By any
likelihood
he showed to-day ? Shakespeare
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Likelihood
LI'KELIHOOD
,Noun.
1.
Probability; verisimilitude; appearance of truth or reality. There is little likelihood that an habitual drunkard will become temperate. There is little likelihood that an old offender will be reformed. Prudence directs us not to undertake a design, when there is little or no likelihood of success.2.
Appearance; show; resemblance. Obs.Definition 2024
likelihood
likelihood
English
Noun
likelihood (countable and uncountable, plural likelihoods)
- 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.
- (statistics) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
- Likeness, resemblance.
- "There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation." (Sir W. Raleigh)
- (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.
- "What of his heart perceive you in his face by any likelihood he showed to-day ?" (Shak)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
probability
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mathematical likelihood
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resemblance
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