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perhaps | likelihood |

As an adverb perhaps

is .

As a noun likelihood is

the probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state of being probable.

perhaps

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adverb

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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • (rare) By chance.
  • * "...will live until he dies perhaps , and then lie down in clover." --Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl (song)

    • Synonyms

    * belike * maybe * mayhap * peradventure * perchance

    Statistics

    * English hedges English modal adverbs

    likelihood

    English

    Noun

    (Likelihood function)
  • The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state 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