ARBITRARINESS Definition & Meaning

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arbitrariness

[ ahr-bi-trer-ee-nis ]

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noun

the quality of being subject to an individual’s will, judgment, discretion, or personal preference:
Of course none of this makes sense; it just shows the arbitrariness and subjectivity of what's considered obscene.
Students need to recognize that there is a certain arbitrariness in any ranking, and be less concerned about whether a school has moved up or down slightly in any given year.
the quality of having no apparent reason or pattern; randomness:
These inconsistencies show the arbitrariness, incongruity, and unreliability of what gets remembered.
the state or quality of being uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; tyranny:
When red tape serves only the organization itself, the rule of law can easily turn into arbitrariness.
The real burden on the peasants was the arbitrariness of the autocratic form of government.
Linguistics, Semiotics. (of words or language) the quality of having no correspondence between the sounds or form of a word and the form, function, or meaning of the thing being denoted:
The arbitrariness of words is absolute because words are abstractions.
Mathematics. the quality of being undetermined, or not having been assigned a specific value:
The arbitrariness of ε concludes the proof for that case.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of arbitrariness¹

arbitrary ( def ) + -ness ( def )

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But younger generations have grown up with more stories of arbitrariness, discrimination and error in America’s death penalty system.

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But being a trans woman in a society that devalues womanhood breaks that inherent hierarchy and makes its arbitrariness all the more visible.

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Many of the forty people awaiting execution at the federal facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, are there because of arbitrariness, discrimination, or official misconduct in the death penalty system.

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Like its counterpart at the state level, the federal death penalty system is rife with arbitrariness and discrimination.

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For others, dog meat has served as a provocative thought exercise about the arbitrariness of the moral value humans assign to animals.

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