Definition of "likeliness"

likeliness

noun
usually uncountable, plural likelinesses
1. The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
2. Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
  Quotations
  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
  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
3. Suitability; agreeableness.
  Quotations
  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. Likeness; similarity.
  Quotations
  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