UNREGULARITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

irregularity; unregularity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unregularity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unregularity"):

inhomogeneity (the quality of being inhomogeneous)

fitfulness; jerkiness (the quality of being spasmodic and irregular)

intermittence; intermittency (the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping)

fluctuation; wavering (the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes)

haphazardness; noise; randomness; stochasticity (the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan)

unevenness; variability (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)

unsteadiness (the quality of being unsteady--varying and unpredictable)