regularity
Americannoun
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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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It’s one Pulisic has been repeating with increasingly regularity as the World Cup approaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
Pandemics happen with regularity due to little things like the susceptibility of the human body to illness and international trade and travel.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
They can win with a small budget because they are able to dig through their opponents’ scraps and strike gold with shocking regularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Watch and ward — reporting with regularity to— Clepp Asquith, Esq.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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
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
Soon afterwards, however, the suspicion that the regularities were important clicked inside his head as the result of several conversations with the young theoretical chemist John Griffith.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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