regularity
Americannoun
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regularities
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the fact or quality of happening at fixed or predictable intervals.
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the fact or quality of happening habitually, routinely, or frequently.
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a uniform or even quality.
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a well-ordered or methodical quality.
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the fact or quality of conforming to a rule, prescribed procedure, principle, etc.
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Explanation
Something that happens with regularity is typical and expected. Fashion trends change with regularity, which is great for stores that want to sell you a new wardrobe every year. Regularity is the quality of being stable and predictable. If you exercise with regularity, you might work out every day. If your car breaks down with regularity, then you're probably used to taking the bus. If you add the prefix ir- to this word, you get irregularity — something unusual, out of the ordinary, or unexpected.
Vocabulary lists containing regularity
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The Postclassical Period, c. 600 CE to c. 1450
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Some studies conducted by academic researchers suggest GLP-1s may improve metabolic health and menstrual regularity in women with PMOS, particularly those who are overweight or have obesity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But depending on the severity of the thoughts and their regularity, they may need help—which in the US, they might have a very hard time getting.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Kaeppel has done the research and found that over the past 106 years, the U.S. equity market has followed a seven-year cycle with uncanny regularity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
For some context, I do a no-spend week in the kitchen with some regularity.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
She had cool green eyes and jet hair, a quick smile, and was the type of girl Jem fell for with monotonous regularity.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
The study’s authors also found regularities in the type of stocks in which predictable and unpredictable funds invest.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
All those statistical regularities unable to fully replicate the human brain’s ability to connect and make meaning out of disparate ideas and experiences.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Large language models are, like people, great at learning regularities in language, and they use this trick to generate human-like text.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2022
As a result, Pythagoras reasoned that all of nature is generated according to mathematical regularities.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Broadly speaking, there are two schools: one holds that laws of nature are simply regularities which we identify in nature; the other that they are necessary features of the world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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