likelihood

Noun

1. The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
   • In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
   • The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
   • While starting early can increase your likelihood of attaining millionaire status, the investments you choose play an equally important role. - 2017 May 16, Maurie Backman, “Here's how to become a millionaire on $56,000...
2. The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
3. Likeness, resemblance.
   • There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […]or between righteousness and reprobation. - 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 3, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William...
4. Appearance, show, sign, expression.