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likeliness | false |

As a noun likeliness

is the condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

likeliness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
  • Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
  • *2004 , Klaus-Martin Goeters, Aviation psychology: practice and research :
  • The proposed HEA is based on the assumption that each specific error has a certain impact on a system/aircraft state whilst the crew's likeliness to commit this error is decreasing with an increasing number of safeguards against it.
  • *2006 , David W. Embley, A. Olivé, Sudha Ram, Conceptual modeling :
  • To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.
  • Suitability; agreeableness.
  • *2004 , Peter Lipton, Inference to the best explanation :
  • A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
  • Likeness; similarity.
  • * 1727 , Robert South, Twelve Sermons
  • No surely, Reason is both the Gift and Image of God, and every Degree of its Improvement is a farther Degree of Likeliness to him.

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
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  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

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