seasonality

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noun

Variation with the seasons

“Tourism has a high degree of seasonality.”

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

nounseasonality (countable and uncountable, plural seasonalities)

plural seasonalities

  1. countableuncountableVariation with the seasons

    Tourism has a high degree of seasonality.

    1 more example

    Between the wars the volume of holiday traffic trebled, but the principal drawback remained - that of seasonality.

    2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Old Frencha-
  6. Frencha-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-redup.
  8. Proto-Indo-European*sísh₁eti
  9. Proto-Italic*sizō
  10. Latinserō
  11. Latinsatiō
  12. Old Frenchsaison
  13. Frenchsaison
  14. Frenchassaisonner
  15. Englishseason
  16. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  18. Englishseasonal
  19. Englishseasonality

From seasonal + -ity.

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Translations

Catalan estacionalitat
  • estacionalitatvariation with seasons
Finnish sesonkiluonteisuus
  • sesonkiluonteisuusvariation with seasons
French saisonnalité
  • saisonnalitévariation with seasons
Hindi मौसमीपन
  • मौसमीपन (mausmīpan)variation with seasons
Hungarian idényjelleg, idényszerűség
  • idényjellegvariation with seasons
  • idényszerűségvariation with seasons
  • szezonalitásvariation with seasons
Indonesian musiman
  • musimanvariation with seasons
Malay kebermusiman
  • kebermusimanvariation with seasons
Polish sezonowość
  • sezonowośćvariation with seasons
Spanish estacionalidad
  • estacionalidadvariation with seasons
Cite this entry
APA

seasonality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seasonality

MLA

“seasonality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seasonality. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “seasonality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seasonality.

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