randomness
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5.4
- noun
- /ˈrændəmnəs/
:
aleatoriedad
- The randomness of the lottery makes it impossible to predict the winner.
- statistical randomness
- chance and randomness
- apparent randomness
Do you think true randomness is possible?
- Do you think true randomness is possible?
- If you leave your time to randomness, you are stealing from your greatness.
- So it's this low level randomness that allows for adaptation.
- If you presume the wrong setting, then randomness takes over.
- Perhaps it's chaos, perhaps it's order, perhaps it's randomness, Perhaps it is design.
- Well, no, the rules can generate just randomness, right?
- And the answer is, well, use randomness.
- Chance is just randomness or things just happening to be the way they are.
- The next thing is like learning how to like deal with luck and randomness.
- But I'm going to introduce some randomness to it.
Examples
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I have to say, I was very influenced by your ideas on randomness and chance.
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Every once in a while, amid all the randomness, something unexpected happens, and it pushes us all forward.
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Then back here I just have some randomness, some randomness going on.
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I hope you enjoyed kind of the randomness that was this video.
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So I like the kind of the randomness of all of these jobs together.
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The randomness of life and all that.
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So it's this low level randomness that allows for adaptation.
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Therefore, even though this study employed a national sample, its randomness cannot be assured.
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It's because they are taking on a kind of randomness that is not quantifiable.
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To have a winning streak of this duration, you have to be good, but there's an element of randomness to it.
Synonyms
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2.1
An unplanned event or meeting that happens without reason
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7.0
Hard to know what will happen next
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5.1
A lack of regular pattern or evenness
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7.6
A quality of making decisions without clear reasons or rules
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9.9
The quality of being random and hard to predict, for example in the weather
A lack of order or plan that makes things random
Unpredictable and inconsistent behavior
Antonyms
How Random
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Randomness comes from the adjective random plus the ending -ness, which makes a noun for a quality. Long ago random came from an old French word meaning 'speed' or 'impulse', the idea of moving without a plan, so randomness is the quality of 'not following any plan or order'.