discontinuity
noun
lack of continuity; irregularity.
discontinuities
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pluralof discontinuity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Over time I became persuaded that Ella's parts were indeed “real” in the sense that her discontinuities in consciousness and awareness led her to experience aspects of herself as separate personalities.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Russia in the 20th century experienced two discontinuities: the 1917 revolution that created the Soviet regime, and the 1991 dissolution of that regime and the nation it had held together with gulags and barbed wire.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
“Breathless” is an artistic hybrid that seemed to capture the discontinuities and conflicts of modern life, half in the artificial public world created by the media and half in the deepest recesses of consciousness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Because its practitioners want to determine how and why contemporary phenomena came to be, they home in on the linkages, and discontinuities, between the distant past, the more recent past, and the present.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2022
These discontinuities and incoherences in the Ego the elder psychologists managed to ignore.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
