ad hocery

English

Alternative forms

• adhockery
• ad hockery
• ad-hockery
• adhocery

Etymology

From ad hoc +‎ -ery.

Noun

ad hocery (plural ad hoceries)

1. Use of ad hoc or improvised reasoning.
2. (computing) Arbitrary decision rules sometimes included in artificially intelligent software to simulate the unexpectedness in human reasoning.

Synonyms

• ad hocism