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FAVOURABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
Synonyms:
advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("favourableness" is a kind of...):
advantage; vantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "favourableness"):
auspiciousness; propitiousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)
Antonym:
unfavourableness (the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success)
Derivation:
favourable (giving an advantage)
favourable (presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome)
favourable ((of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate)
favourable (encouraging or approving or pleasing)
