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spasmodicity

spasmodicity noun: the quality of being spasmodic.

Noun

spasmodicity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being spasmodic.
    • There is more irritability of the mucous membranes and more spasmodicity in squilla than in bryonia.1895, W[illia]m C[olby] Goodno, The Practice of Medicine […], volume II (Diseases of the Circulatory, Respiratory, Urinary, and Digestive Systems, Diseases of the Blood and Constitutional and...
    • Meanwhile there is time and more time to he filled. One can race with time, by doing this, and this, and…Spasmodicity becomes the way of life, the restless behavior of the untrained or mistrained person, with components of irritability, anxiety, misdirected or briefly sustained effort.1950, Bernard Phillips, “[Notes on the Prison Community] After Prisonization”, in Holley Cantine, Dachine Rainer, editors, Prison Etiquette: The Convict’s Compendium of Useful Information...

Synonyms of spasmodicity

Origin of spasmodicity

From spasmodic + -ity.

Questions about spasmodicity

What does spasmodicity mean?
Spasmodicity means the quality of being spasmodic.
What part of speech is spasmodicity?
Spasmodicity is a noun.

Words near spasmodicity in the dictionary

  1. spasmodic
  2. spasmodical
  3. spasmodicality
  4. spasmodically
  5. spasmodicalness
  6. spasmodicity
  7. spasmodicness
  8. spasmodics
  9. spasmodism
  10. spasmodist
  11. spasmodists

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