foreseeability

noun

Etymology

From foresee + -ability.

  1. inherited from foresēon
  2. inherited from foreseen
  3. suffixed as foreseeability — “foresee + -ability

Definitions

  1. The quality of being foreseeable

    The quality of being foreseeable; predictability.

    • 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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