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arbitraryness

arbitraryness is the alternative spelling of arbitrariness.

Meaning of arbitrariness

Noun

arbitrariness (usually uncountable, plural arbitrarinesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary.
    • Passion, providence, and imitation are conventionally the respective ruling forces of these three processes. Yet to take them at face value, as an innocent reading of the poem might advise, would be to betray Garcilaso’s own efforts, in this sonnet and elsewhere, to expose the arbitrariness of...1998 spring, José María Rodríguez García, “Epos delendum est: The Subject of Carthage in Garcilaso’s ‘A Boscán desde “La Goleta”’”, in Hispanic Review, volume 66, number 2, Philadelphia, Pa....
    Synonyms:
    arbitrarity

Forms of arbitraryness

pluralarbitrarynesses

Questions about arbitraryness

What is arbitraryness the alternative spelling of?
Arbitraryness is the alternative spelling of arbitrariness.

Words near arbitraryness in the dictionary

  1. arbitrary law
  2. arbitrary laws
  3. arbitrary unit
  4. arbitrary units
  5. arbitrary-precision arithmetic
  6. arbitraryness
  7. arbitrarynesses
  8. arbitratable
  9. arbitrate
  10. arbitrated
  11. arbitrates

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