Predictableness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being predictable. uncountable

    "What we look for in genre writing, Mr. Updike suggested, is exactly what the critics sometimes complain about; the predictableness of a formula successfully executed."

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"What we look for in genre writing, Mr. Updike suggested, is exactly what the critics sometimes complain about; the predictableness of a formula successfully executed."

Etymology

From predictable + -ness.

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