probableness
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English
Etymology
Latin probabilis, From probable + -ness, in existence since the 1600s.
Pronunciation
Noun
probableness (plural uncountable)
- (formal, rare) The state or quality of being likely to occur; likelihood, probability.
- 1872, Batuk Lal, THE LAW OF EVIDENCE (The Indian Evidence Act, 1872):
- “…the probableness of the existence of that fact…”
- 1872, Batuk Lal, THE LAW OF EVIDENCE (The Indian Evidence Act, 1872):
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state of being probable
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References
- “probableness, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
