Definition of Haphazardness

1. Noun. The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan.

Exact synonyms: Noise, Randomness, Stochasticity
Generic synonyms: Irregularity, Unregularity
Specialized synonyms: Ergodicity
Derivative terms: Haphazard, Random

Definition of Haphazardness

1. Noun. The quality of lacking any predictable order or plan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Haphazardness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Haphazardness

hap-harlots
hapa
hapalindole
hapalindoles
hapalonychia
hapantotype
hapas
hapax
hapax legomena
hapax legomenon
hapaxes
haphalgesia
haphazard
haphazard sampling
haphazardly
haphazardness (current term)
haphazardnesses
haphazardous
haphazardously
haphazardries
haphazardry
haphazards
haphephobia
haphtara
haphtarah
haphtarahs
haphtaras
haphtarot
haphtaroth
hapkeite

Literary usage of Haphazardness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mind and Conduct: Morse Lectures Delivered at the Union Theological Seminary by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1919)
"In closing, then, let us consider a few cases to illustrate how the apparent haphazardness and lawlessness of the relation between mind and body disappear ..."

2. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"The inchoate vastness of our material and of its intertangled racial currents, the haphazardness of our methods and institutions, all tend to drive us ..."

3. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1922)
"... day- unto-day haphazardness of public school financing of the past. No business enterprise could exist with such a management and there are many who are ..."

4. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"... after all, is made by good English writers, and not vice versa—as to the extraordinary haphazardness of syntax, phrase, and composition alike I do not ..."

5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1900)
"Any haphazardness would be disastrous. Exactly in this way, the advocates of the prescribed system of education maintain that up to a certain age the boy's ..."

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