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counterintuitiveness

counterintuitiveness noun: the property of being counterintuitive.

Noun

counterintuitiveness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being counterintuitive.
    • But John Latham, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that there was simply no money for geoengineering, possibly because there’s a certain counterintuitiveness to shooting particles into the atmosphere.2007 August 12, Michael Fitzgerald, “It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming”, in New York Times

Origin of counterintuitiveness

From counterintuitive + -ness.

Questions about counterintuitiveness

What does counterintuitiveness mean?
Counterintuitiveness means the property of being counterintuitive.
What part of speech is counterintuitiveness?
Counterintuitiveness is a noun.

Words near counterintuitiveness in the dictionary

  1. counterintrigues
  2. counterintuition
  3. counterintuitions
  4. counterintuitive
  5. counterintuitively
  6. counterintuitiveness
  7. counterintuitivities
  8. counterintuitivity
  9. counterinvade
  10. counterinvaded
  11. counterinvades

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