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likeliness

Today it means: The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur. Full definition →

Middle English liklinesse

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Middle English · inherited fromliklinesse
English todaylikeliness

From Middle English liklinesse, lyklinesse; equivalent to likely + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.