Antonyms for irregularity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-reg-yuh-lar-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˌrɛg yəˈlær ɪ ti |
Definition of irregularity
Origin :- early 14c., "violation of Church rules," from Old French irregularité (14c.) and directly from Medieval Latin irregularitas, from irregularis (see irregular). Meaning "state of being not regular" is from 1590s.
- noun unevenness
- noun something that is irregular
- noun a suspicious or illegal occurrence
- The irregularity of the proceeding was unnoticed in the tense excitement.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Irregularity and pain in menstruation are a frequent cause of neuroticism.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- The use of either instrument, when unaccompanied, leads to every sort of irregularity and trickery.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- The irregularity of the meeting must be assigned to the enactment against which it offended.
- Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini
- There should be no plundering, no irregularity, no disregard of general orders.
- Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini
- Secrecy is urged as the reason for the irregularity of the meeting.
- Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini
- What would make their defection more certain was the irregularity of pay.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- Trust to some irregularity when you are there, to get recalled, and be injured.
- Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
- Irregularity and singularity were among the fashions of the day.
- Extract from : « A Houseful of Girls » by Sarah Tytler
- Every character is more or less regular in its irregularity.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Mind » by James Mark Baldwin
Synonyms for irregularity
- aberration
- abnormality
- allowance
- anomaly
- asymmetry
- breach
- break
- bump
- bumpiness
- change
- characteristic
- crime
- dent
- deviation
- dispensation
- distortion
- eccentricity
- exception
- excess
- exemption
- flaw
- hole
- hump
- imperfection
- inconsistency
- infringement
- innovation
- jaggedness
- laxity
- looseness
- malformation
- malfunction
- nonconformity
- oddity
- peculiarity
- privilege
- quirk
- rarity
- roughness
- shift
- singularity
- spasm
- stop
- strangeness
- twist
- uncertainty
- unconformity
- uniqueness
- unorthodoxy
- variability
- variation
- violation
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