UNPREDICTABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpredictability mean? 

• UNPREDICTABILITY (noun)
  The noun UNPREDICTABILITY has 3 senses:

1. the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

2. the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

3. lacking predictability

  Familiarity information: UNPREDICTABILITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPREDICTABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

capriciousness; unpredictability

Hypernyms ("unpredictability" is a kind of...):

changefulness; inconstancy (the quality of being changeable and variable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trait of being unpredictably irresolute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

unpredictability; volatility

Context example:

the volatility of the market drove many investors away

Hypernyms ("unpredictability" is a kind of...):

irresoluteness; irresolution (the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lacking predictability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unpredictability" is a kind of...):

precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)

Antonym:

predictability (the quality of being predictable)

Derivation:

unpredictable (unknown in advance)

unpredictable (not capable of being foretold)