Likelihood: alternatives and connections

Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, exc…

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The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.

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Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.

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Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.

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Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event; the thing you mention is very unlikely.

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Likelihood; probability.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

How probable an event is.

Absence of likelihood.

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Absence of likelihood.

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