unlikeliness
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- noun
- /ʌnˈlaɪkliˌnɛs/
:
improbabilidad
- I want poems to give me a sense of the whorl and chatter of this world, its terrors and glees, its sheer unlikeliness.
I read a great book about called aliens that explains the unlikeliness of it.
- I read a great book about called aliens that explains the unlikeliness of it.
Examples
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These very personal strands of your past and my past will remind us so viscerally of the unlikeliness and momentousness of Barack Obama's rise to the presidency.
Blog text (9) -
This pairing may be helpful to theorists and students of the short story precisely because of its unlikeliness.
Academic text (1993) -
I read a great book about it called Aliens that explains the unlikeliness of it.
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You refer to my post with phrases like "logical inconsistency" and "the unlikeliness of that proposition" and state that you're trying to help.
Blog text (5) -
Aware of the sheer unlikeliness of getting what I wanted (though, after all, I had got Kevin), I nevertheless began to comb Marin County.
Fiction book (1998) -
His solution—and this was a part of the overall unlikeliness of it all—was to domesticate himself, in ways hitherto quite unimaginable for him.
Fiction book (1999) -
The unlikeliness of finding a four-leaf clover brought excitement to our search in the field.
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She laughed at the unlikeliness of winning the lottery twice in a row.
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Despite the unlikeliness of success, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming an astronaut.
Synonyms
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How unlikely something is to happen or be true
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A situation when a story or excuse does not seem true
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Not likely to happen or be true
The state of being unlikely to happen or be true
A quality that makes people doubt something because it seems untrue
Antonyms
How Unlikely
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unlikeliness is made from un- ('not'), like ('likely' or 'similar') and -ness ('state' or 'quality'). So, unlikeliness is the 'state' of being 'not likely', or simply the chance that something will not happen.