What is another word for regularities?

Pronunciation: [ɹˌɛɡjuːlˈaɹɪtiz] (IPA)

Regularities are patterns or features that occur consistently or predictably. Synonyms for regularities include uniformity, consistency, conformity, standardization, and orderliness. These terms allude to the predictability of a pattern or behavior, whether it applies to natural phenomena or human-made systems. Regularities can be observed in all walks of life, from the functioning of the human body to the operations of complex machinery. Whether in science or in social contexts, recognizing and understanding regularities is essential in generating accurate predictions, making effective decisions, and achieving optimal outcomes. Knowing these synonyms can help individuals better express the idea of a consistent pattern in their communication.

What are the hypernyms for Regularities?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Regularities

Considered as a fact, it is the statement of observed processes, and belongs to positive science like the observed courses of the planets, or any other observed regularities and uniformities.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
For my part, I almost long for the old days of knight-errantry, and would rather be knocked on the head by a giant, or carried through the air by a flying griffin, than live in this circle of dull regularities,-the brute at the mill.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
regularities in our experience condition us to form the idea of causal necessity and to deduce that causes must generate events.
"Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema"
Sam Vaknin

Famous quotes with Regularities

  • [S]cientists are not robotic inducing machines that infer structures of explanation only from regularities observed in natural phenomena (assuming, as I doubt, that such a style of reasoning could ever achieve success in principle). Scientists are human beings, immersed in culture, and struggling with all the curious tools of inference that mind permits […]. Culture can potentiate as well as constrain—as Darwin's translation of Adam Smith's laissez-faire economic models into biology as the theory of natural selection. In any case, objective minds do not exist outside culture, so we must make the best of our ineluctable embedding.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • All life on earth - everything from bacteria to mushrooms to hippos - shares an astonishing range of detailed biochemical similarities, including the structure of heredity in DNA and RNA, and the universal use of ATP as an energy-storing compound. Two possible scenarios, with markedly different implications for the nature of life, might explain these regularities: either all earthly life shares these features because no other chemistry can work, or these similarities only record the common descent of all organisms on earth from a single origin that happened to feature this chemistry as one possibility among many.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • With the historicization of the heavens the age-old idea of discovering universal laws of behavior applicable everywhere and always seems to have lost plausibility, whether for sub-atomic particles or for human beings. ...all such patterns and regularities, it seems to me, should be understood to be limited, local, evanescent — including, now, even the laws of physics.
    William H. McNeill
  • "Because of the variables and the complexity of their interaction, the data assembled by descriptive musicology yield relatively few observable regularities."
    Leonard B. Meyer
  • The clock... is a piece of power-machinery whose "product" is seconds and minutes: by its essential nature it dissociated time from human events and helped create the belief in an independent world of mathematically measurable sequences: the special world of science. ...while human life has regularities of its own... time is measured not by the calendar but by the events that occupy it. ...if growth has its own duration and regularities, behind it are not simply matter and motion but the facts of development: in short, history. And while mechanical time is strung out in a succession of mathematically isolated instants, organic time—what Bergson calls duration—is cumulative in its effects. ...organic time moves only in one direction—through the cycle of birth, growth, development, decay, and death—and the past that is already dead remains present in the future that has still to be born.
    Henri Bergson

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