regularity

/ˈrɛgjəˌlɛrədi/

/rɛjəˈlɛrɪti/

Other forms: regularities

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.

Definitions of regularity

1. noun

   the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate
   “he was famous for the regularity of his habits”

   antonyms:

   irregularity

   not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals

   types:

   cyclicity, periodicity

   the quality of recurring at regular intervals

   methodicalness, orderliness

   the quality of appreciating method and system

   uniformity

   a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying

   evenness, invariability

   a quality of uniformity and lack of variation

   even spacing

   regularity of spacing

   steadiness

   the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying

   regular recurrence, rhythm

   recurring at regular intervals

   organisation, organization, system

   an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

   smoothness

   the quality of having a level and even surface

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
2. noun

   a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles
   synonyms: geometrical regularity

   type of:

   balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry

   (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane