imprevisibility
English
Etymology
From imprevisible + -ity.
Noun
imprevisibility (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of being imprevisible or unforeseeable; unpredictability.
- 1887 October, “New Books”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 622:
- Free-will, thus shown to be open to no logical objection, is to be affirmed on moral grounds. It is definable as "the power in virtue of which man can choose between two contrary actions without being determined by any necessity"; and the notion of "imprevisibility" is to be asserted, without qualification, as a part of its meaning.
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References
- “imprevisibility, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 3019, column 2.
- “imprevisibility, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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