INDETERMINISM Synonyms

• the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

• the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• a possible event or occurrence or result

• the state of being contingent on something

• the quality of being inconclusive

• (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work

• the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

• being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

• the state of being unsure of something

• the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

• the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

• lacking predictability

• unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning

• indistinctness of shape or character

• the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor

• the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

• being easily excited

• an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action

• the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies