likeliness

Noun

likeliness (usually uncountable, plural likelinesses)

1. (usually) The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
2. (usually) 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.2004, Klaus-Martin Goeters, Aviation psychology: practice and research
   • To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.2006, David W. Embley, A. Olivé, Sudha Ram, Conceptual modeling
3. (usually) Suitability; agreeableness.
   • A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.2004, Peter Lipton, Inference to the best explanation
4. (usually) 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.1727, Robert South, Twelve Sermons