counterintuitiveness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counterintuitive +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

counterintuitiveness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being counterintuitive.
    • 2007 August 12, Michael Fitzgerald, “It Takes Deep Pockets to Fight Global Warming”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.