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Terms vs Unforeseeability - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and unforeseeability

is that terms is while unforeseeability is inability to be predicted or anticipated.

terms

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Noun

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    unforeseeability

    English

    Noun

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  • Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
  • * 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, " Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
  • * 2009 Dec. 6, , " A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
  • * 2009 , Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays , ISBN 9783039119011, pp. 139-140:
    • This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability .

    Usage notes

    * Often used in contexts involving matters of law.