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randomness

noun
/ˈɹæn.dəm.nəs/

Etymology

From random + -ness.

  1. derived from *h₃er-✻
  2. derived from *randijō✻
  3. derived from rend — “a run, race”
  4. derived from *randiju✻ — “a run, race”
  5. derived from randon
  6. inherited from randoun
  7. suffixed as randomness — “random + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of all possible outcomes being equally likely.

  2. A type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.

  3. A measure of the lack of purpose, logic, or objectivity of an event.

    • There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.
    • "[…] We were seeing a randomness about failures that was very hard to manage, but with a better understanding we're able to prioritise more effectively."

The neighborhood

Derived

algorithmic randomness, Kolmogorov randomness, pseudo-randomness, statistical randomness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for randomness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA