Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

gradualness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Being aware of that gradualness is important for mental health.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2018

But the gradualness of the process—the methodical accumulation of shimmering patterns over organ-like bass tones—saturates the ears instead of battering them.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

Bishops have referred frequently to the theological concept of the "law of gradualness," which encourages the faithful to take one step at a time in the search for holiness.

From US News • Oct. 8, 2014

He followed the advance of the railways that abbreviated time and conquered space as they unified America, but he knew that these technological changes had been anticipated, with epochal gradualness, by nature itself.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2010

In art, as in everything else, he progressed slowly; the literary part of him worked its way into the matter-of-fact part of him with the gradualness of the daylight through a shadowy wood.

From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)