Meanings
plural incessancies
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
What troubled them was its incessancy.
2003, Richmond Barbour, Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626, page 682 more examples
Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong
1794, Timothy Dwight, Greenfield HillMost 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 become to be a matter of remark.
1891, “Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's Song”, in The Oölogist, volume 9, page 65
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of something that continues without end or interruption
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Spanish no cesantía
- no cesantíaTranslations
Cite this entry
incessancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incessancy
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