Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

retrospective determinism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English

Syllables: ret-ro-spec-tive de-ter-min-ism
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

7

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fallacy consisting in reasoning that because something happened, it was therefore bound to happen.

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

retrospective determinisms (plural)

Questions

What does retrospective determinism mean?: A fallacy consisting in reasoning that because something happened, it was therefore bound to happen.

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