imprévision

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See also: imprevisión

French

Etymology

From im- +‎ prévision (“foresight”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pʁe.vi.zjɔ̃/

Noun

imprévision f (plural imprévisions)

  1. lack of foresight
  2. unpredictability, fortuity
    • 1973, Roland Barthes, Le plaisir du texte, Éditions du Seuil, page 11:
      la possibilité d’une dialectique du désir, d’une imprévision de la jouissance
      the possibility of a dialectics of desire, of an unpredictability of bliss

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