different between unforeseeability vs predictable

English

Etymology

un- +? foreseeability

Noun

unforeseeability (uncountable)

1. Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
   • 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, "Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):

     An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.

   • 2009 Dec. 6, Matt Richtel, "A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):

     No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).

   • 2009, Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays, ?ISBN, pp. 139-140:

     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.

Usage notes

• Often used in contexts involving matters of law.

English

Etymology

predict +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???d?kt?bl?/

Adjective

predictable (comparative more predictable, superlative most predictable)

1. Able to be predicted.

   a predictable mathematical pattern

   a boring film with a predictable ending

Antonyms

• unpredictable

Derived terms

• predictability

Related terms

• predict
• prediction
• predictor

Translations

See also

• expected
• possible