#arbitrar

• Abusive — Constituting an abuse, exceeding the limits of legality, morality, or common sense; based on force, whim, or an unequal power dynamic, to the detriment of another person's rights. In a medical or behavioral sense, it designates an exaggerated, harmful, and immoderate use of a substance, privilege, or resource.
• Haphazardly — A popular slang expression used to describe a selection made at random, arbitrarily, or based on superficial and ad-hoc criteria, lacking rigorous analysis or objective methodology. In a contextual sense, it suggests a hasty choice or a heterogeneous assortment of items gathered without a clear structural logic.
• Arbitrary — Left to the free choice or whim of someone, without being based on a law, a fixed rule, or an objective necessity; despotic, abusive, unjustified. In linguistics and philosophy, the term describes a conventional connection established by simple social agreement, such as the relationship between the linguistic sign and the reality denoted.
• Refereeing — The act of arbitrating and its result; the officiating of a sports competition by enforcing the rules or the settlement of a commercial or political dispute by an impartial non-state tribunal. It represented a formal process whereby parties chose to avoid ordinary courts.
• Arbitrarily — A rare archaic and regional adverbial form meaning 'arbitrarily'; an action carried out at one's own whim, without considering laws, fixed rules, logic, or objective necessities. It was used in old legal texts or political pamphlets to describe the abusive or despotic behavior of local authorities.
• Arbitrary act — Archaic form and old regional variant (found sporadically in early legal translations or administrative manuscripts) for 'arbitrarietate' or 'arbitrary act'; a deed, decision, or state of affairs based on abuse, despotism, and the whim of an authority, lacking legal or logical foundation.
• Arbitrariness — Archaic form or transitional neologism (sporadically used in the 19th century under the direct influence of Romance languages) for the term 'arbitrarietate'; the manifestation or character of an action taken exclusively at the whim of an authority, without respecting written laws.
• Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign — A fundamental principle of structural linguistics, formulated by Ferdinand de Saussure, stipulating that the bond between the signifier (the acoustic image or written form of a word) and the signified (its concept or meaning) is purely conventional and unmotivated. This means there is no intrinsic or necessary relationship between the sounds composing a term and the objective reality it denotes in nature.