imponderable

Examples

• All

• All variables and imponderables considered, it is probably safe to predict that a fundamental political change will occur—perhaps quite soon—that will end the current regime in China.

  Academic text (1992)

• This is the most important of all the imponderables in a social struggle.

  Blog text (22)

• Here I think the main part of the answer has to be imponderable factors, such as the inspiration of Hippocrates himself and his associates.

• Every proposed act of private, religious expression in a public forum would force officials to weigh a host of imponderables.

  Academic text (1995)

• At the core of this epistemological standpoint lie the imponderables of language and different subjectivities.

  Academic text (1993)

• His intricate account involves many imponderables and probabilities, nothing like certainties.

  Academic text (2016)

• Iraq is not taboo; it is just that there are so many imponderables that seem to control both current and projected production that it is difficult to make any projections with much confidence in the numbers that one puts down.

  Blog text (11)

• The scientific study of climate change involves many imponderables, making it hard to predict future impacts.

• When planning the event, we considered several imponderables, such as the weather and guest availability.

• The committee faced imponderables that complicated their decision-making process for the new policy.

Synonyms

I

imponderability

vsimponderable

• Formal

9.9

A factor that cannot be measured or predicted

is the same idea but uses a different grammatical noun form

I

imponderabilia

vsimponderable

• Formal

9.9

Things you cannot measure or count exactly

focuses on an outcome or effect that cannot be precisely assessed

N

nonobservable

vsimponderable

• Specialized

9.9

A factor that cannot be seen or measured directly

focuses on the impact or outcome that cannot be precisely measured

How Predictable

certainty

• Literature

202 3.4

uncertainty

296 4.0

unknown

41 6.1

unknown quantity

1 7.1

imponderable

• Formal

2 9.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology