Probabilistic

//ˌpɹɒb.ə.bɪˈlɪs.tɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or derived using probability.

    "Richard Hanania—one of those weird right-wing randos who appear on the scene out of nowhere every few months, suddenly raised to Twitter prominence for some occult algorithmic/dark-money reason that we will never get a good answer about—wrote a long newsletter in which he endorses opposing The Current Thing as a “heuristic”: “I would argue that a probabilistic approach suggests that we should be anti-current thing.”"

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic doctrine of probabilism.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or based on probability wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism wordnet

Synonyms

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stochastic

Example

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"The future is not determined by the present: the world is probabilistic."

Etymology

From probabil(ity) + -istic and probabil(ism) + -istic.

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probabilistic processroman catholic

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