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continentalities

continentalities is the plural of continentality.

Meaning of continentality

Noun

continentality (countable and uncountable, plural continentalities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being a continent.
  2. (countable) The degree to which the climate of a place is affected by a large land mass.
    • Continentality (reflecting the difference between continental and marine climates) was, on average, the most important factor, contributing an average of 14.91% (based on permutation importance), followed by temperature seasonality…2021, Hong Zhou et al., “Identification of novel bat coronaviruses sheds light on the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses”, in Cell

Questions about continentalities

What is continentalities the plural of?
Continentalities is the plural of continentality.

Words near continentalities in the dictionary

  1. continentalising
  2. continentalism
  3. continentalisms
  4. continentalist
  5. continentalists
  6. continentalities
  7. continentality
  8. continentalization
  9. continentalizations
  10. continentalize
  11. continentalized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: continentalities (page history and authors); continentality (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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