different between likelihood vs possibly
likelihood
English
Etymology
From likely +? -hood.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?klih?d/
Noun
likelihood (countable and uncountable, plural likelihoods)
- 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.
- (statistics) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
- Likeness, resemblance.
- "There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, or between righteousness and reprobation." (Sir W. Raleigh)
- (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.
- "What of his heart perceive you in his face by any likelihood he showed to-day ?" (Shak)
Synonyms
- likeliness
- odds
Antonyms
- unlikelihood
Derived terms
- in all likelihood
Translations
likelihood From the web:
- what likelihood means
- what likelihood estimation
- what likelihood that an event will happen
- what is likelihood function
- what is likelihood ratio
- what's the likelihood of having twins
- what does likelihood mean
- what's the likelihood of getting pregnant
possibly
English
Etymology
possible +? -ly
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?s?bli/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?s?bli/
Adverb
possibly (comparative more possibly, superlative most possibly)
- (modifying a clause or predicate) Perhaps; indicates that the proposition may be true (is not certainly false) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker.
- (modifying a verb) In the realm of possibility; indicates that the action may successfully be performed (is not impossible) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker that might limit the performance.
Synonyms
- conceivably, maybe, perhaps, potentially
Antonyms
- impossibly
- inevitably
- certainly
Related terms
- by chance
- mayhap
- peradventure
- perchance
- incidentally
- contingently
Translations
possibly From the web:
- what possibly could go wrong
- what possibly mean
- what possibly happened to the mycenaean culture
- what possibly explains the origin of the synagogue
- what possibly influenced the evolution of bipedalism
- what possibly can be the ratio of the de broglie wavelength
- what possibly can go wrong
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