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Meaning of unforeseeability | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Inability to be predicted or anticipated.

uncountable

Examples

“An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.”
“No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).”
“This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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