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imprevisibility

imprevisibility noun: the quality of being imprevisible or unforeseeable; unpredictability.

Noun

imprevisibility (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being imprevisible or unforeseeable; unpredictability.
    • 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...1887 October, “New Books”, in Mind, volume 12, number 48, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 622

Origin of imprevisibility

From imprevisible + -ity.

Questions about imprevisibility

What does imprevisibility mean?
Imprevisibility means the quality of being imprevisible or unforeseeable; unpredictability.
What part of speech is imprevisibility?
Imprevisibility is a noun.

Words near imprevisibility in the dictionary

  1. imprestable
  2. imprested
  3. impresting
  4. imprests
  5. impreventable
  6. imprevisibility
  7. imprevisible
  8. imprimantur
  9. imprimatur
  10. imprimatura
  11. imprimaturs

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