PREDETERMINISM Antonyms

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work

• the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

• government of a political unit by its own people

• determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion

• being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

• the state of being unsure of something

• the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

• the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

• lacking predictability

• the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

• the act of making a choice

• The doctrine that all human actions are not so much determined by the preceding events, conditions, causes or karma as by deliberate choice or free will.

• A case in which the uncertainty principle applies; a case in which certain pairs of physical properties such as the position and momentum of a particle cannot be known simultaneously.

• Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.

• A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.

• the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies