indetermination

Questions about indetermination

What does indetermination mean?

indetermination means "the quality of being vague and poorly defined".

How many syllables are in indetermination?

indetermination has 7 syllables and divides as in-de-ter-mi-na-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for indetermination?

Close synonyms include indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indefinity, indeterminacy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indetermination a common word?

indetermination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.