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English Dictionary: favorableness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for favorableness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
favorableness n the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome Synonym(s): favorableness, favourableness, advantageousness, positivity, positiveness, profitableness Antonym(s): unfavorableness, unfavourableness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Favorable \Fa"vorable\, a. [Written also {favourable}.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See {Favor}, n.] 1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. --Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. --Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. --Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. --Sir W. Temple. 3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] --Spenser. -- {Fa"vorableness}, n. -- {Fa"vorably}, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke.