unpredictability

1. 1.

   the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

   Synonymscapriciousness

   Broaderinconstancy
2. 2.

   the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

   “the volatility of the market drove many investors away”

   Synonymsvolatility

   Broaderirresoluteness
3. 3.

   lacking predictability

   Antonymspredictability

   Broaderuncertainty

Other forms of unpredictability

plural

unpredictabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unpredictability

What does unpredictability mean?

unpredictability means "the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unpredictability?

unpredictability has 7 syllables: un-pre-dic-ta-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌʌnpɹəˌdɪktəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for unpredictability?

Close synonyms include capriciousness, volatility. 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.

What is the opposite of unpredictability?

The recorded antonyms are predictability.

Is unpredictability a common word?

unpredictability is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unpredictability?

48 words rhyme with unpredictability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.