单词 | unpredictability |
释义 | unpredictabilityn. The quality or fact of being unpredictable. Also as a count noun: an instance of this; an unpredictable event or occurrence. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [noun] > unpredictability casualty1503 contingency1635 accidentalness1648 accidentality1651 uncalculableness1831 incalculableness1864 incalculability1873 unpredictability1878 flukiness1888 impredicability1906 1878 Princeton Rev. Sept. 502 By denying causation,..we should be admitting, in certain cases, the existence of irregularity, of spontaneity, of unpredictability. 1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity II. 324 Unpredictability is not limited to human determinism. 1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants 769 Organisms in nature live in environments that contain rhythms and unpredictabilities, patterns and noise. 2005 E. Barr Plan B (2006) xxviii. 283 She was agreeable. She had no mystery about her, no feistiness, no unpredictability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1878 |
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