daagh wrote:
My simple feeling is that when we use mass nouns or abstract nouns that are taken as in-disparate or inseparable, then we have to use ‘greater’. To wit
This year’s flood damage is greater than last year’s. --- One cannot count damage.
India has greater prosperity than many neighbors.
Disappointment is greater in adolescence than in adulthood.
Isn’t likelihood something that cannot be counted as one likelihood or two likelihoods?
Therefore ‘greater’ is the more appropriate word
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