incessancy
incessancy noun: the quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
Noun
incessancy (usually uncountable, plural incessancies)
- The quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
- Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong1794, Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill
- Most birds confine their song principally to the morning and evening hours, and if they do not do this entirely, they surely quiet down at midday, when scarcely a sound is to be heard, but not so the Yellow Warbler,–morning, noon, and night, he keeps it up, and the incessancy of his singing has...1891, “Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's Song”, in The Oölogist, volume 9, page 65
Forms of incessancy
| plural | incessancies |
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Origin of incessancy
From incessant.
Questions about incessancy
- What does incessancy mean?
- Incessancy means the quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
- What part of speech is incessancy?
- Incessancy is a noun.
- What is the plural of incessancy?
- The plural of incessancy is incessancies.
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