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

  • 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

  • The focus of the design proposition has been to help in opening up thedrinking occasionality, and communicating theconcept of ‘infectious playfulness’ for Baileys.

    Bailissimo Traveling Bar by Jump Studios 2009

  • The focus of the design proposition has been to help in opening up thedrinking occasionality, and communicating theconcept of ‘infectious playfulness’ for Baileys.

    The ReLegs Chair by Jennifer Heier 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • The formality is not dry or overworked, the occasionality never sentimental or gratuit.

    ANOTHER REASON TO READ ABOUT THE PELICAN'S DREAMS! 2008

  • The formality is not dry or overworked, the occasionality never sentimental or gratuit.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin 2001

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