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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being predicable; capacity for being affirmed of or attributed to something.

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  • noun The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something.

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  • noun The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something.

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Examples

  • Then with a predicability bordering on sunset, they are dropped later after the turkey is safely cooking away in the oven.

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  • Situational familiarity, behavioral predispositions, pattern predicability.

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  • Regardless of whether you believed it was happening then, it is unmistakably happening now, and that fact that its happening was almost pathetic in its predicability once the Rovelettes took over McCain's campaign.

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  • Under the old regime, brutal as it was, there was some predicability.

    Consequence of staying the Course 2007

  • Predicability, then, is not a sufficient condition of categoricity, but non-predicability is a sufficient disqualification.

    Medieval Theories of the Categories Gracia, Jorge 2006

  • There was less predicability even under Syrian domination.

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Since the Saturn Awards are the genre version of the MTV Movie awards in terms of predicability, pretty much everyone you expected to win won an award.

    Nifty! yendi 2004

  • But we must take the impossible and the possible not only in the sphere of becoming, but also in the spheres of truth and predicability, and the various other spheres in which we speak of the possible: for it will be alike in all.

    Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002

  • But we must take the impossible and the possible not only in the sphere of becoming, but also in the spheres of truth and predicability, and the various other spheres in which we speak of the possible: for it will be alike in all.

    PRIOR ANALYTICS Aristotle 1989

  • For Gracia, predicability is exclusively the property of words.

    Integral Options Cafe WH 2010

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