likelihood
/ˈlaɪklihʊd/ noun C1- The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable. · In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.· The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
- The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
- Likeness, resemblance.
Plural likelihoods
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When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock.
Bennet had no more to say; and Lady Lucas, who had been long yawning at the repetition of delights which she saw no likelihood of sharing, was left to the comforts of cold ham and chicken.
Your portion is unhappily so small, that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications.
I was told, that not only your sister was on the point of being most advantageously married, but that _you_--that Miss Elizabeth Bennet would, in all likelihood, be soon afterwards united to my nephew--my own nephew, Mr.
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