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").

Topics

External links

• Google Images
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Wiktionary