likeliness

plural likelinesses

1. uncountableusuallyThe condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
2. uncountableusuallyLikelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.

   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

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   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

3. uncountableusuallySuitability; 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. uncountableusuallyLikeness; 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