Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being occasional.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
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- noun The quality of being
occasional .
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Examples
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Hans-Georg Gadamer used "occasionality" as a term for a similar relation in his discussion of portraiture in Truth and Method (1960).
The Way to All Flesh Bell, Julian 2008
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The focus of the design proposition has been to help in opening up thedrinking occasionality, and communicating theconcept of ‘infectious playfulness’ for Baileys.
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The focus of the design proposition has been to help in opening up thedrinking occasionality, and communicating theconcept of ‘infectious playfulness’ for Baileys.
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There are plenty of professional friends whom I adore, but whom I'm not sure I'd love quite as devotedly if they were in my department, or city, or regular life; the occasionality of our meetings means such friendships are both intense. . . and not called upon to be something they're not.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009
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There are plenty of professional friends whom I adore, but whom I'm not sure I'd love quite as devotedly if they were in my department, or city, or regular life; the occasionality of our meetings means such friendships are both intense. . . and not called upon to be something they're not.
Archive 2009-12-01 Flavia 2009
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The formality is not dry or overworked, the occasionality never sentimental or gratuit.
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The formality is not dry or overworked, the occasionality never sentimental or gratuit.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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One of the things I most value as a blog reader is the occasionality and spontaneity of the medium.
Of Blogs and Substance Bruce Schauble 2007
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One of the things I most value as a blog reader is the occasionality and spontaneity of the medium.
Archive 2007-03-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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Brecht acknowledges as much when he rather bluntly insists, against Eisler's alleged murmuring about the poems 'mere occasionality or jottedness, on the Hollywoodelegien's compressed monumentality and gravitas: "these are full-scale poems" and "in fact the compositions are probably really important as music too" (Bertolt Brecht Journals 238) .24
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