informationlessness

noun

Absence of information.

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Meanings

nouninformationlessness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAbsence of information.

    The older idea that informationlessness was to be equated with uniform distributions is vulnerable to the transformational paradoxes.

    1998, Dov M. Gabbay, Philippe Smets, Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management, page 122
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    But, Wallace observed, information is not synonymous with meaning, and the meaning of a canon's informationlessness is the certainty of its contents.

    1992, Richard Bauman, Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments, page 257

Origin

From informationless + -ness.

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