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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In some cases, image generators propagate patterns with excessive regularity, triggering trypophobia, a strong aversion to clusters of bumps or holes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The England defender got forward with regularity and it was encouraging to see him provide the cross for Sesko's late header.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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
The DOJ invoked the presumption of regularity and argued his arrest was part of an anti-terrorism dragnet, which the judge threw out.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
And every few years, with a regularity and rapture that approached ritual, they traded up for a new car.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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
Our ability to recognize and remember regularities in speech and text allows us to do things like complete a friend’s sentence or solve a Wordle in three tries.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2022
But while the laws of science are meant to accurately describe observed regularities in the natural world, laws of logic can be thought of as rules of thought.
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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