FAVOURABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does favourableness mean? 

• FAVOURABLENESS (noun)
  The noun FAVOURABLENESS has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAVOURABLENESS (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 ("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)