- 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
Running won’t turn you into a yoga guru, but improving your balance now will lower the likeliness of falling as you age, says Fieseler, also the president of the American Medical Athletic Association.
From US News ● Sep. 30, 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
So when Arthur was gone she turned all into the likeliness as she and they were before, and said, Sirs, now may we go where we will.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
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