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FAVORABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does favorableness mean? 

FAVORABLENESS (noun)
  The noun FAVORABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcomeplay

  Familiarity information: FAVORABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FAVORABLENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness

Hypernyms ("favorableness" 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 "favorableness"):

auspiciousness; propitiousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)

Antonym:

unfavorableness (the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success)

Derivation:

favorable (giving an advantage)

favorable (presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome)

favorable ((of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate)

favorable (encouraging or approving or pleasing)


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