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countable and uncountable, plural likelihoods
The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable. examples
(statistics, probability theory) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter. examples
Likeness, resemblance. quotations examples
There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […] or between righteousness and reprobation.
1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 3, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], 1st book
(archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.