randomnessn.
/ˈrandəmnəs/, U.S. /ˈrændəmnəs/ The quality or state of being random (in various senses); haphazardness; unpredictability.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > haphazardness or randomness
catch as catch cana1393
die1548
hazard1548
random1565
haphazard1569
chance-medley1583
lay1584
lottery1593
haphazarding1787
randomness1803
haphazardness1857
happy-go-luckiness1866
chanciness1870
flukiness1888
haphazardry1910
randomicity1936
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [noun] > randomness
planlessness1838
randomness1872
1803 J. Smalley Sermons x. 158 It is not the instability, the contingence, the randomness, with which a being acts, that constitutes him a free agent.
1866 J. Venn Logic of Chance ii. 30 We must also idealize the ‘randomness’ of the throwing of the penny.
1872 R. D. Blackmore Maid of Sker II. xxviii. 18 If any one cares for that sort of thing, who knows mankind's great randomness.
1921 J. M. Keynes Treat. Probability xxiv. 281 Many important differences of opinion in the treatment of probability have been due to confusion or vagueness as to what is meant by Randomness.
1938 Nature 14 May 881/2 Four tests for randomness..were applied to these numbers, with satisfactory results in each case.
1990 A. Lambert No Talking after Lights 3 Mrs Birmingham received them in a drawing room furnished with aristocratic randomness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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