likeliness

Questions about likeliness

What does likeliness mean?

likeliness means "the probability of a specified outcome".

How many syllables are in likeliness?

likeliness has 4 syllables: li-ke-li-ness. The stress falls on "ke".

What is another word for likeliness?

Close synonyms include likelihood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of likeliness?

The recorded antonyms are unlikeliness.

Is likeliness a common word?

likeliness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.