arbitrariness

noun

Definition of arbitrarinessnext
as in volatility

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  1. volatility
  2. eccentricity
  3. irregularity
  4. inconstancy
Noun
  • Context: Observers had feared it would be shelved in light of recent market volatility.
    — Ryan Lawler, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The threat, imposition and subsequent pauses of tariffs have caused significant market volatility.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of volatility
Noun
  • However, the large eccentricity means its orbit ranges from as far as 2 astronomical units (300 million km/186 million miles — i.e. twice the Earth–sun distance) from its star to as close as 0.75 AU (112 million km/69.7 million miles).
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Brain Dead Studios What’s spring without a little eccentricity and who’s more eccentric a filmmaker than Wes Anderson?
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of eccentricity
Noun
  • Read Next Crime & Courts CMPD crime lab analyst under investigation over ‘irregularities’ in tests, DA says March 27, 2024 1:01 PM The SBI turned over its findings last week, and Merriweather must now review the case file and decide whether or not to press charges.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2025
  • On this occasion, however, Russia’s election observers documented the irregularities, and political opposition leaders mobilized the biggest nationwide demonstration since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
    — Michael McFaul, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of irregularity
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  • Years of naval inconstancy with repair work drove Vigor Industrial—a once vibrant and growing maritime conglomerate—into the welcoming arms of hedge funds, which wasted no time in striping the company of value.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In the nineteen-nineties and two-thousands, as the center-left was evolving, the label was most effectively applied to those telegenic figures—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, John Edwards—who were suspected of ideological inconstancy and of substituting polls for principles.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
Definition of inconstancy
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