Unforeseeability
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unforeseeability is a noun meaning Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
Meaning
Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
Example Sentences
No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability.
Synonyms for unforeseeability
Depending on context, synonyms include unforeseeableness.
Antonyms for unforeseeability
Common opposites include foreseeability, foreseeableness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unforeseeableness, imponderable, unpreventable, unpredictable, venture, unavoidableness.
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