Regularity vs Manner - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline
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(countable) A particular regular occurrence
Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
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, title= Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self; bearing; habitual style.
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Customary method of acting; habit.
Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and address.
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Certain degree or measure.
Sort; kind; style.
Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
Regularity is a related term of manner.
As nouns the difference between regularity and manner
is that regularity is (uncountable) the condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline while manner is .regularity
English
Noun
- I have been watching that show with regularity .
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The treacherous manner of his mournful death.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
