unforeseeability

English

Etymology

From 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 December 6, Matt Richtel, “A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 September 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, pages 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.

   Synonym: unforeseeableness

   Antonyms: foreseeability, foreseeableness

Usage notes

• Often used in contexts involving matters of law.