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Surprisal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of surprising or the state of being surprised.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of surprising, or coming suddenly and unexpectedly, or the state of being surprised, or taken unawares; a surprise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of surprising someone

Word Usage

"These hypotheses and a similar surprisal hypothesis are tested using the self-paced reading methodology in Japanese, a language with a few nice properties like relatively free word order, which makes controlling the stimuli slightly easier than it is in English."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

perturbation disruption

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

surprise

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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