What is "favorableness"

Favorable \Fa"vor*a*ble\ (f[=a]"v[~e]r*[.a]*b'l), 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"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, adv.

   The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty.
   --Burke.

n. (alternative spelling of favourableness English)

n. the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome [syn: favourableness, advantageousness] [ant: unfavorableness]