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haphazardness

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hap·haz·ard  (hp-hzrd)
adj.
Dependent upon or characterized by mere chance. See Synonyms at chance.
n.
Mere chance; fortuity.
adv.
By chance; casually.
hap·hazard·ly adv.
hap·hazard·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.haphazardness - the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
stochasticity, randomness, noise
unregularity, irregularity - not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
ergodicity - an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions


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Maybe it's the idiosyncratic assortment of material, a haphazardness that doesn't square with the expected behaviors of bureaucracy and institution.
Nick Crowe. (Hot List) by Artforum International
The failure provides source material for a meditation on the haphazardness of the creative process.
Rosemarie Trockel: Dia Center for the Arts. (Reviews: New York) by Williams, Gregory / Artforum International
Even the numerous Abstract Pictures, whose modernism broke the tranquil thread of representation running through the show with scrapings in which flaunted haphazardness barely conceals the skillful control of superimpositions of color, could have been illuminated by certain passages of Atlas.
Painting Richter by Artforum International
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