Usually means: Lack of predetermination in events.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. indeterminism: Merriam-Webster
  2. indeterminism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. indeterminism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. indeterminism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Indeterminism, indeterminism: Wordnik
  6. indeterminism: Wiktionary
  7. indeterminism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. indeterminism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. indeterminism: Dictionary.com
  10. Indeterminism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. indeterminism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See indeterminist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (indeterminism)

noun:  (ethics, religion, uncountable) 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.
noun:  (countable, physics) 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.
noun:  (countable) Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.
noun:  (countable, computing) A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.

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