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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REGULAR'ITY, n.
1. Agreeableness to a rule or to established order; as the regularity of legal proceedings.
2. Method; certain order. Regularity is the life of business.
3. Conformity to certain principles; as the regularity of a figure.
4. Steadiness or uniformity in a course; as the regularity of the motion of a heavenly body. There is no regularity in the vicissitudes of the weather.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles [syn: regularity, geometrical regularity]
2: the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits" [ant: irregularity, unregularity]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1603 1. the quality or state of being regular 2. something that is regular

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Regularity Reg`u*lar"i*ty (-l?r"?*t?), n. [Cf. F. r['e]gularit['e].] The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(regularities) 1. A regularity is the fact that the same thing always happens in the same circumstances. (FORMAL) Children seek out regularities and rules in acquiring language. N-COUNT 2. see also regular

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Order, rule, method, system, uniformity, even tenor, regular course. 2. Punctuality, regular recurrence. 3. Steadiness, constancy.

Moby Thesaurus

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