irregularity of recurrence

Roget category 139

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.3. Recurrent time

#139. Irregularity of recurrence

noun

irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality — fitfulness etc. adj. — capriciousness, ecrhythmus^†.

adjective

irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering — rambling, rhapsodical — spasmodic — immethodical^†, unmethodical, variable.

adverb

irregularly etc. adj. — by fits and starts etc. (discontinuously) 70.

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