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HAPHAZARDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does haphazardness mean?
• HAPHAZARDNESS (noun)
The noun HAPHAZARDNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
Familiarity information: HAPHAZARDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
haphazardness; noise; randomness; stochasticity
Hypernyms ("haphazardness" is a kind of...):
irregularity; unregularity (not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "haphazardness"):
ergodicity (an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions)
Derivation:
haphazard (dependent upon or characterized by chance)
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