counterintuitiveness

noun

The property of being counterintuitive.

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Meanings

nouncounterintuitiveness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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

Origin

From counterintuitive + -ness.

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Chicago

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