- a variation of likelihood.
likeliness
Americannoun
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“If only one in 100 adult orangutans is removed from a population per year, this population has a high likeliness to go extinct.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2018
A forensic psychologist for the defense said he recommended Griego receive five more years of treatment, despite the likeliness that Griego's treatment at Sequoyah Lodge would likely end in 2018.
From US News ● Feb. 11, 2016
But likeliness, like Elvis, has left the building.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2016
“For the first half of the 20th century, many female cartoonists wrote under ambiguous or masculine names, just to increase their likeliness for publication.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2016
Scarce that leaf, Fluttering so dry and withered to his feet From off the sal-branch, bore less likeliness Of spring's soft greenery than he of him Who was the princely flower of all his land.
From The Light of Asia by Arnold, Edwin, Sir
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