gradual
adjective
taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little.
gradualness
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a word derived from
gradual.
Example Sentences
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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
The thinking which he formulated in the late spring and early summer of 1861 obeyed his invariable law of mental gradualness.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
