IRREGULARITY - Definition

Meaning of IRREGULARITY

Pronunciation:		i`regyu'laritee
WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality [n] not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals [n] an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern [n] irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis

	Websites:

	Synonyms:	abnormality, constipation, geometrical irregularity, unregularity

	Antonyms:	regularity

	See Also:	asymmetry, deviance, deviation, dyschezia, fecal impaction, fitfulness, fluctuation, haphazardness, imbalance, inhomogeneity, intermittence, intermittency, jerkiness, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, obstipation, quality, randomness, symptom, unevenness, unsteadiness, variability, wavering

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Irreg`ular"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Irregularities}. [Cf. F. irr['e]gularit['e].] The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.

Thesaurus Terms

	Related Terms:	aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, affability, amorphism, anamorphism, anamorphosis, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, asperity, asymmetry, Bohemianism, broken thread, brokenness, buckle, bumpiness, capriciousness, cardialgia, casualness, changeability, changeableness, cholera morbus, choppiness, colic, common touch, conceit, constipation, contortion, contrariety, cordiality, costiveness, crackpotism, cragginess, crank, crankiness, crankism, crookedness, crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, derangement, desultoriness, detorsion, deviability, deviancy, deviation, diarrhea, difference, differentiation, differentness, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disequilibrium, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportion, disruption, distortion, disturbance, divarication, divergence, diversification, dottiness, dysentery, dyspepsia, ease, easiness, easygoingness, eccentricity, entropy, episode, erraticism, erraticness, familiarity, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, flux, folksiness, freakiness, freakishness, gnarl, graciousness, granulation, gripe, gripes, haphazardness, harshness, heartburn, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, hispidity, homeliness, homeyness, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, impulsiveness, inadequacy, incoherence, incompleteness, inconsistency, inconstancy, indigestion, indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inferiority, informality, informalness, inharmonious harmony, injustice, instability, insufficiency, intermittence, jaggedness, jerkiness, joltiness, kink, knot, lientery, looseness, lopsidedness, maggot, mannerism, mercuriality, monstrosity, moodiness, most admired disorder, motleyness, mutability, naturalness, non sequitur, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonstandardization, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, obstipation, oddity, odds, offhandedness, overbalance, parenthesis, peculiarity, perturbation, plainness, pluralism, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pyrosis, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, raggedness, randomness, relaxedness, restlessness, rough air, roughness, ruggedness, rugosity, scraggliness, screw, shiftiness, shortcoming, simplicity, singularity, sociability, strangeness, subnormality, superiority, teratism, tooth, torsion, tortuosity, trick, trots, turbulence, turn, twist, unaffectedness, unbalance, unceremoniousness, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, undependability, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unfixedness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unpretentiousness, unreliability, unsettledness, unsmoothness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, warp, wavering, waywardness, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, wrench, wrest, wring

HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY