Counterintuitiveness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The property of being counterintuitive. uncountable
"But John Latham, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that there was simply no money for geoengineering, possibly because there’s a certain counterintuitiveness to shooting particles into the atmosphere."
Example
More examples"But John Latham, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that there was simply no money for geoengineering, possibly because there’s a certain counterintuitiveness to shooting particles into the atmosphere."
Etymology
From counterintuitive + -ness.
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