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恣意 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arbitrariness noun The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary.
  • arbitrary adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.

Senses

恣意 is used for these senses in English:

  • arbitrariness The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary.
  • arbitrary (usually, of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.

arbitrary — full definition

  1. adj Based on personal choice or chance rather than any clear reason, rule, or system.
  2. adj Used, in mathematics and logic, to mean "any one you like" out of all the possibilities — not random in the everyday sense, but unspecified.

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