Indicating likelihood
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Indicating high likelihood (certainty)
Nouns which are commonly used to indicate high likelihood include:
| certainty | no doubt |
no danger  |
evidence |
| inevitability | no chance |
The nouns in the following examples indicate high likelihood or certainty:
The theory of plate tectonics, which explains seismic activity at plate boundaries, was only fully accepted in the 1960s, so the science of earthquakes is young, and the ability to predict them with any certainty is non-existent. (Microconcord Corpus A)
In England, you can see this furniture for sale at quite high prices these days, although it was virtually thrown out by my parents. Is there a sort of inevitable inevitability of this sort of cycle over time? (Bank of English)
Note also that even a noun such as likelihood which by itself might be used to indicate mid likelihood, can be strengthened by an adjective such as strong and further reinforced by an adverb such as very:
I think there's a very strong likelihood of you marrying an American. (Bank of English)
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Indicating high likelihood
