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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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
Far from abusing the courts with frivolous appeals, the exonerees we interviewed described being thwarted at every attempt due to appellate and postconviction processes that prioritize procedural regularity over the substance of their innocence claims.
From Slate ● May 29, 2026
The Lakers should use James’ $52.6-million salary to sign long, athletic players who can drain threes with regularity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,000 miles west of Ecuador, a seafloor fault has been producing magnitude 6 earthquakes with striking regularity for at least 30 years.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
When Lawrence visited New York, which happened with increasing regularity as his fund-raising demands expanded, he invariably stayed at Loomis’s Manhattan town house.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
This is because language models are trained to generate text by identifying patterns and regularities in the data, and may sometimes produce responses that contain repetitive or unusual elements.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2022
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, after Gilbert, work on the magnet failed to discover the regularities that make experimental knowledge possible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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