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UNLIKELINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The improbability of a specified outcome
Synonyms:
unlikelihood; unlikeliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unlikeliness" is a kind of...):
improbability; improbableness (the quality of being improbable)
Antonym:
likeliness (the probability of a specified outcome)
Derivation:
unlikely (has little chance of being the case or coming about)
unlikely (not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred)
unlikely (having a probability too low to inspire belief)
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