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Regularity vs Seriousness - What's the difference?

regularity | seriousness | Related terms |

Regularity is a related term of seriousness.


As nouns the difference between regularity and seriousness

is that regularity is (uncountable) the condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline while seriousness is the state or quality of being serious.

regularity

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline
    • I have been watching that show with regularity .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.}}
  • (countable) A particular regular occurrence

    • Related terms

    * regular

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    * irregularity

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    seriousness

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being serious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.