EGAVE

indeterminism

About 0.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The doctrine that all human actions are not so much determined by the preceding events, conditions, causes or karma as by deliberate choice or free will.
  2. noun A case in which the uncertainty principle applies; a case in which certain pairs of physical properties such as the position and momentum of a particle cannot be known simultaneously.
  3. noun Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.
  4. noun A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.

Similar words

free will inevitabilism indeterminacy incompatibilism nondeterminism determinablism indeterminableness autonomy undeterminacy casualism

Often followed by

in is and of as that or are to

Word family

indeterminisms indeterminist indeterministic indeterminists

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