die Willkür

B2 Noun frequency rank #7,170

What Willkür means

Noun

arbitrariness
The state of acting to one's own conscious choice, independent of other forces or powers

Forms

die Willkür · no common plural

Pronunciation

Willkür in a sentence

Die Regeln müssen für alle gelten, sonst herrscht reine Willkür.

The rules have to apply to everyone, otherwise pure arbitrariness takes over.

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Willkür is B2 German — upper-intermediate vocabulary, ranked #7,170 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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