probableness

Latin probabilis, From probable +‎ -ness, in existence since the 1600s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɒb.ə.bəl.nəs/

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probableness (plural uncountable)

1. (formal, rare) The state or quality of being likely to occur; likelihood, probability.
   • 1872, Batuk Lal, THE LAW OF EVIDENCE (The Indian Evidence Act, 1872):

     “…the probableness of the existence of that fact…”

• likelihood, probability, plausibility

• improbability, implausibility

• probable, probably, probability

• “probableness, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.