predictableness
English
Etymology
From predictable + -ness.
Noun
predictableness (uncountable)
- The quality of being predictable.
- 2008 February 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Great Literature? Depends Whodunit”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 April 2025:
- 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.