foreseeability

Noun

foreseeability (usually uncountable, plural foreseeabilities)

1. (especially, usually) The quality of being foreseeable; predictability.
   • Probably the most powerful and most uniform social policy crystallized in the various rules and doctrines of tort law is to be found in the concept of foreseeability or expectability of certain harms from certain types of conduct.1932 May 1, Fowler Vincent Harper, “Foreseeability Factor in the Law of Torts”, in Notre Dame Law Review, volume 7, number 4, Notre Dame, I.N.: Notre Dame Law School, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 468
   • "If you foresee the event and you go forward, then you are criminally negligent," she said, adding, "This was a boat that navigated on the waters of Lake George since 1979. In terms of criminal negligence, there clearly wasn't the foreseeability that there may be in civil negligence."2007 February 6, Danny Hakim, quoting Kathleen B. Hogan, “Two Misdemeanor Charges in Lake George Capsizing”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

   Synonyms:

   foreseeableness, previsibility

   Antonyms:

   unforeseeability