Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Rhythmical character; rhythmicality.

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  • noun The quality or state of having a rhythm

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  • noun the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music

Etymologies

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rhythmic +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • The real answer lies in circadian and circannual rhythmicity, chronobiology, evolution vs. modern life.

    T.S. Wiley: Sick and Tired, the Book of the Dead 2010

  • Krauss suspects that the differences reflect the rhythmicity of languages: the more rhythmic, the more gestures.

    Living Hand To Mouth 2008

  • Craft a piece, a poem, a meditation, a scene about the importance of pattern, prediction, rhythmicity.

    Launchpad Day 5: Cosmology (Mike Brotherton) maryrobinette 2008

  • These changes take the form of slowing, increased amplitude, and increased rhythmicity.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • It will not “lift” under cheery or lively circumstances, although it may have a rhythmicity of its own less intense in the late afternoon or early evening and worse in the early morning.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • Effect of lunar cyclicity on oestrus rhythmicity in the Indian water buffalo.

    8 Reproduction 1981

  • The molecular death of certain tissues destroyed the general functional rhythmicity of the system until the disturbance became general, somatic death (that is, the death of the entire body) resulting.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

  • Cyanobacteria, plants, fungi, animals - they all use completely different molecules to drive cellular and organismal rhythmicity, implying independent origin and evolution, yet identical function.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Knowing the identity of the molecular players is very useful as a tool - if you know the sequence, you can attach a dye or something that glows in the dark to one of the clock gene promoters and thus measure and visualize rhythmicity in cell cultures, tissue cultures or whole organisms.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • But early molecular papers made big leaps from what a bunch of genes in a single cell did to the rhythmicity of the whole animal.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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