impredictability

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From im- +‎ predictability.

Noun[edit]

impredictability (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Synonym of unpredictability
    • 2008, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca, Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 199:
      As we move forward, we might want to look at how narratives are produced in multiplayer environments, for example, where the parameters of the story are not all fixed by a designer and where new kinds of experiences arise due to the impredictability of the behaviour of the other players.

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