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IMPROBABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being improbable
Example:
the improbability of such rare coincidences
Synonyms:
improbability; improbableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("improbableness" is a kind of...):
precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "improbableness"):
unlikelihood; unlikeliness (the improbability of a specified outcome)
Derivation:
improbable (too improbable to admit of belief)
improbable (not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred)
improbable (having a probability too low to inspire belief)
