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predictability

noun

Definition of predictabilitynext
as in monotony

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Recent Examples of predictability The higher the cost of an error, the more users value predictability and control. — Polina Chebanova, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 One of you may value freedom while the other values predictability. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2026 And that predictability and security could be exactly what many savers need right now. — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 The rule will provide greater predictability for landowners, farmers, ranchers, energy producers, the technology sector, developers and small businesses, the agency said. — Matthew Daly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 That predictability could matter as much as raw computing power. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026 The key is simplicity and predictability, giving producers confidence that American locations can compete with foreign alternatives. — Sam Roseme, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026 One overarching goal for collective action should be increasing predictability wherever possible. — Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026 Advisers for the wealthy say Singapore’s advantage is increasingly the predictability that comes with its rules. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predictability
  1. monotony
  2. dullness
  3. tediousness
  4. sameness
  5. platitude
  6. flatness
Noun
  • Life, at least for my family, was defined by scarcity, monotony, and drabness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Chicago Bears battled injuries, monotony and each other during the offseason, but several important storylines loom heading into the opener against the Carolina Panthers.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of monotony
Noun
  • Upping the ante with a red light therapy device can also help reverse summer sun damage, support circulation to ward off seasonal dullness, and a little session under the glowing light can even boost your mood on shorter, gloomier days.
    — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Strollers have also long been associated with a certain, well, dullness.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of dullness
Noun
  • Many women with natural hair can empathize with the breakage concerns and tediousness that can arise when taking down protective styles.
    — Caché McClay, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • It’s powered by your own hand—only without the tediousness of using a needle and thread.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of tediousness
Noun
  • Jones is, as she’s proven throughout her career, immensely adept at capturing a multitude of personae with quick shifts of posture, timbre, and accent, though in this case, a sameness comes with recounting so much recent political conversation.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • But somewhere along the way, consistency became sameness, and people don’t experience work or appreciation in the same way.
    — Candy Fernandez, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of sameness
Noun
  • By platitudes like a peaceful and dignified death and silly words like natural.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Running parallel to this butchery investigation is the arrival of perpetually hungover FBI agent Gwen Birgssen, played by British actress Lily James with an incomprehensible southern drawl and some clunky platitudes that veer into genre parody.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of platitude
Noun
  • The poetics of self-perception, memory, time, surface, depth, flatness, dimension, boundaries.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Hillary Kelly argues that the generation’s novels tend to focus on the flatness of modern life—but alienation doesn’t have to be dull.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
Definition of flatness

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“Predictability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predictability. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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