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the only thing that makes chaos feel like a place you've been before
means The quality of being able to be known or guessed in advance, because something behaves in a consistent, reliable pattern.
from From 'predict,' which comes from Latin 'praedicere' — 'prae-' (before) plus 'dicere' (to say or tell). So at root it's literally 'saying beforehand.' The '-able' suffix (from Latin '-abilis') adds the sense of 'capable of being done,' and '-ity' (from Latin '-itas') turns the whole thing into a noun naming a quality. Stack it all up and you get 'the quality of being capable of being said in advance.'
survival hackBrains crave it; uncertainty triggers more stress than certain pain
casino enemySlot machines profit by making rewards perfectly unpredictable
trust currencyRelationships run on it more than on grand gestures
comedy killerJokes die the instant you see the punchline coming
physics limitQuantum mechanics says some events are unpredictable in principle