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counterintuitiveness en · NOUN

Etymology

From counterintuitive + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The property of being counterintuitive.
    • But John Latham, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that there was simply no money for geoengineering, possibly because there’s a certain counterintuitiveness to shooting particles into the atmosphere. 2007 August 12, Michael Fitzgerald, “It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming”, in New York Times: