The phrase "arbitrariness about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a situation or behavior that is based on personal preference or whim rather than logical reasoning or fairness. Example: There was an air of arbitrariness about the way the teacher graded our essays; some students received high marks while others with similar quality work received much lower grades.
But as usual, there's a certain arbitrariness about which one of a good author's good books the award goes to.
There is perhaps a slight arbitrariness about these poems, a feeling that it doesn't much matter where one ends and another begins.
So there can be a significant element of arbitrariness about the segments of humanity that we identify as "groups".
These links between blood types and diseases have a mysterious arbitrariness about them, and scientists have only begun to work out the reasons behind some of them.
Given that structural conservation of protein folds can occur for sequences that differ markedly from each other, it is desirable that these analyses are done at the structural (rather than sequence) level (although there is a certain arbitrariness about where one fold ends and another begins).
"Those kinds of things make one wonder about arbitrariness and capriciousness," she said, adding that there should be an appeals process.
To satisfy the Supreme Court's concerns about arbitrariness, Florida's new version shifted final sentencing authority from jurors to judges — the jury's sentence became merely an advisory verdict.
To satisfy the Supreme Court's concerns about arbitrariness, Florida's new version shifted final sentencing authority from jurors to judges the jury's sentence became merely an advisory verdict.
Not every one of the complicating variables just mentioned was tested in the studies, but extreme concerns about arbitrariness in rankings are somewhat alleviated by them.
I worked as a student chaplain at a children's hospital in 2000 and after that, I started trying to write about sick kids, write about illness, write about the arbitrariness and injustice of illness.
But it also made me think (not for the first time) about laughter and context, and about the arbitrariness of the divisions between comedy – the art form and industry – and the myriad other types of performances that can be equally hilarious.
