randomness

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 0.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The property of all possible outcomes being equally likely.
2. noun A type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
3. noun A measure of the lack of purpose, logic, or objectivity of an event.

   There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.

Similar words

haphazardness parallel coincidence conjunction chance serendipity accident uncertainty tandem randomicity

Often followed by

of in and is or to that can as

Word family

random randomly randomnesses