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informationlessness

informationlessness noun: absence of information.

Noun

informationlessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of information.
    • But, Wallace observed, information is not synonymous with meaning, and the meaning of a canon's informationlessness is the certainty of its contents.1992, Richard Bauman, Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments, page 257
    • The older idea that informationlessness was to be equated with uniform distributions is vulnerable to the transformational paradoxes.1998, Dov M. Gabbay, Philippe Smets, Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management, page 122

Origin of informationlessness

From informationless + -ness.

Questions about informationlessness

What does informationlessness mean?
Informationlessness means absence of information.
What part of speech is informationlessness?
Informationlessness is a noun.

Words near informationlessness in the dictionary

  1. informationize
  2. informationized
  3. informationizes
  4. informationizing
  5. informationless
  6. informationlessness
  7. informations
  8. informatisation
  9. informatise
  10. informatised
  11. informatises

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