'Likelihood' definitions:
Definition of 'likelihood'
(from WordNet)
noun
The probability of a specified outcome [syn: likelihood, likeliness] [ant: unlikelihood, unlikeliness]
Definition of 'Likelihood'
From: GCIDE
- Likelihood \Like"li*hood\ (l[imac]k"l[i^]*h[oo^]d), n. [Likely + -hood.]
- 1. Appearance; show; sign; expression. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- What of his heart perceive you in his face By any likelihood he showed to-day ? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Likeness; resemblance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Statistical probability; probability of being true or of occurring in the future; as, the likelihood of being abducted by aliens is close to zero.. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'likelihood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- bare possibility,
- best bet,
- chance,
- conceivability,
- conceivableness,
- contingency,
- even chance,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- expectations,
- fair expectation,
- favorable prospect,
- good chance,
- good opportunity,
- good possibility,
- hope,
- hopes,
- liability,
- liableness,
- likeliness,
- main chance,
- obligation,
- odds,
- odds-on,
- odds-on chance,
- off chance,
- outlook,
- outside chance,
- outside hope,
- possibility,
- possibleness,
- potential,
- potentiality,
- presumption,
- presumptive evidence,
- probabilism,
- probability,
- proneness,
- prospect,
- prospects,
- reasonable ground,
- reasonable hope,
- remote possibility,
- small hope,
- sporting chance,
- sure bet,
- sure thing,
- tendency,
- the attainable,
- the feasible,
- the possible,
- thinkability,
- thinkableness,
- verisimilitude,
- virtuality,
- weakness,
- well-grounded hope,
- what is possible,
- what may be,
- what might be