arbitrariness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary. uncountable,usually
    — Passion, providence, and imitation are conventionally the respective ruling forces of these three processes. Yet to take them at face value, as an innocent reading of the poem might advise, would be to betray Garcilaso’s own efforts, in this sonnet and elsewhere, to expose the arbitrariness of grandiose idealist concepts such as Platonic love and providential history.

词形变化

arbitrarinesses plural arbitraryness alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Latin arbiter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -ārius
Latin arbitrāriusder.
Middle English arbitrarie
English arbitrary
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English arbitrariness
From arbitrary + -ness.
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