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creeping determinism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English

Syllables
creep-ing de-ter-min-ism
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

tendency to perceive past events as more predictable than they actually were at the time

Synonyms

hindsight bias

Questions

What does creeping determinism mean?
tendency to perceive past events as more predictable than they actually were at the time

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