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likelihoods

likelihoods is the plural of likelihood.

Meaning of likelihood

Noun

likelihood (countable and uncountable, plural likelihoods)

  1. The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
    • In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
  2. The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
  3. Likeness, resemblance.
    • There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […]or between righteousness and reprobation.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 3, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book
  4. (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.

Phrases with likelihoods

Questions about likelihoods

What is likelihoods the plural of?
Likelihoods is the plural of likelihood.

Words near likelihoods in the dictionary

  1. likelier
  2. likelies
  3. likeliest
  4. likelihead
  5. likelihood
  6. likelihoods
  7. likelily
  8. likeliness
  9. likelinesses
  10. likely
  11. likely lad

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