unpredictability

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ predictability.

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Noun

unpredictability (countable and uncountable, plural unpredictabilities)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being unpredictable.
   • 2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews‎:

     The unpredictability of Gemini was then contrasted with examples of human spontaneity, like the splatter technique of Jackson Pollock.

2. (countable) Something which is unpredictable.

Translations

The quality of being unpredictable

Catalan: impredictibilitat f Danish: uforudsigelighed c Dutch: onvoorspelbaarheid (nl) Estonian: ettearvamatus Finnish: ennalta-arvaamattomuus French: imprévisibilité (fr) German: Unvorhersehbarkeit (de) f Hungarian: kiszámíthatatlanság (hu) Italian: imprevedibilità (it) f Mandarin: 變化莫測 / 变化莫测 (zh) (biànhuàmòcè), 出乎意料 (zh) (chūhūyìliào) Maori: kumukumu Polish: nieprzewidywalność (pl) f Portuguese: imprevisibilidade (pt) f Romanian: neprevizibilitate f, neanticipabilitate f Russian: непредсказу́емость (ru) f (nepredskazújemostʹ) Spanish: imprevisibilidad f, impredecibilidad f Swedish: oförutsägbarhet (sv) c Ukrainian: непередба́чуваність f (neperedbáčuvanistʹ), непрогнозо́ваність f (neprohnozóvanistʹ)

Something which is unpredictable

Dutch: onvoorspelbaarheid (nl) Portuguese: imprevisibilidade (pt) f Romanian: neprevizibilitate f Spanish: lo imprevisible / impredecible