unforeseeability
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
unforeseeability (uncountable)
- Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
- 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, "Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
- An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
- 2009 December 6, Matt Richtel, “A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 September 2011:
- No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
- 2009, Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays, →ISBN, pages 139–140:
- 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.
- Synonym: unforeseeableness
- Antonyms: foreseeability, foreseeableness
- 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, "Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
Usage notes edit
- Often used in contexts involving matters of law.