Foreseeability

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being foreseeable; predictability. especially, uncountable, usually

    "Probably the most powerful and most uniform social policy crystallized in the various rules and doctrines of tort law is to be found in the concept of foreseeability or expectability of certain harms from certain types of conduct."

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clairvoyanceforebodingforeknowledgeforeseeablenessprecognitionpredictability

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"Probably the most powerful and most uniform social policy crystallized in the various rules and doctrines of tort law is to be found in the concept of foreseeability or expectability of certain harms from certain types of conduct."

Etymology

From foresee + -ability.

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