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likelyhood

likelyhood is the obsolete spelling 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.

Forms of likelyhood

plurallikelyhoods

Questions about likelyhood

What is likelyhood the obsolete spelling of?
Likelyhood is the obsolete spelling of likelihood.

Words near likelyhood in the dictionary

  1. likely
  2. likely lad
  3. likely lads
  4. likely stories
  5. likely story
  6. likelyhood
  7. likelyhoods
  8. Likelys
  9. likembe
  10. likembes
  11. likeminded

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