Aleatory

Quick meaning: Aleatory is an adjective meaning Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

Meaning

Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

More Meanings

1. (art, music) Produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).

Example Sentences

Malicious Fate, too, they felt, would even crown with the grand prix the number they would have chosen. But for the prospective draw for the wig—which reintroduced the aleatory—life would scarcely have been bearable.

Soon the snow will close on us; we are here some twenty miles - twenty-seven, they say, but this I profoundly disbelieve - in the woods; communication by letter is slow and (let me be consistent) aleatory; by telegram is as near as may be impossible.

There is no particular reason why even the gregarious Americans should so throng the portals of a perfectly obscure steerage passenger like young Chuzzlewit. There was every reason why they should throng the portals of the author of Pickwick and Oliver Twist. And no doubt they did. If I may be permitted the aleatory image, you bet they did.

Synonyms for aleatory

Depending on context, synonyms include random, stochastic, unpredictable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unpredictable, incidental, scattered, casual, offhand, sortitioned.

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