happening vs likelihood

happening

noun
  • Something that happens. 

  • A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation. 

adj
  • Trendy, up-to-the-minute. 

  • Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable. 

likelihood

noun
  • The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable. 

  • The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter. 

  • Likeness, resemblance. 

How often have the words happening and likelihood occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )