informationlessness

English

Etymology

informationless +‎ -ness

Noun

informationlessness (uncountable)

1. Absence of information.
   • 1992, Richard Bauman, Folklore, cultural performances, and popular entertainments, page 257:

     But, Wallace observed, information is not synonymous with meaning, and the meaning of a canon's informationlessness is the certainty of its contents.

   • 1998, Dov M. Gabbay, Philippe Smets, Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management, page 122:

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