incalculability
- noun
- /ˌɪnˌkæl.kjʊˈlæb.ɪ.ti/
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incalculabilidad
- The incalculability of human behavior makes it challenging for economists to create accurate models.
Examples
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The cigarette is a motif of waste in terms of labor, health, and temporality that reminds us of filmic experience's incalculability, its unrefined pleasures, and the threat implied in its collective dreams.
Academic text (2016) -
It touches ugly chords of prejudice, it raises nationalistic instincts that the West has not had to contend with for many decades, and it introduces an element of incalculability into each country's public life and into the relations of nations with each other.
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The incalculability of nature's forces makes it difficult to predict the weather accurately.
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In mathematics, the incalculability of certain problems leads to new theories and explorations.
Synonyms
Being too large or great to know exactly
A factor that cannot be measured or predicted
Antonyms
How Measurable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
incalculability = incalculable (transparent) = in + calcul + able + ity
The noun meaning is directly and regularly formed from the adjective 'incalculable' with the abstract noun suffix '-ity'.
Etymology
The word incalculability is made from in- meaning 'not' and calculate, which comes from a word for 'count'. Think of a calculator, a device that counts. So incalculability means 'not able to be counted, measured, or predicted', which is why we use it for things we cannot estimate.