incessancy

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noun

The quality of being incessant; unceasingness.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounincessancy (usually uncountable, plural incessancies)

plural incessancies

  1. 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 68
    2 more examples

    Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong

    1794, 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 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
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APA

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Chicago

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