predictability

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality or degree of being possible to predict

   Determinism does not necessarily imply perfect predictability of every action.

2. 2
   noun

   the quality of happening in a regular, unsurprising, or repetitive way

   The plot's predictability reduced the suspense.

From predictable + -ity. Predict comes from Latin praedicere ("to say beforehand"), built from prae- ("before") + dicere ("to say").

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