Regularity vs Solemnity - 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
The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.
* Addison
* J. Edwards
An instance or example of solemn behavior; a rite or ceremony performed with reverence.
* Alexander Pope
* Atterbury
(legal) A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
Regularity is a related term of solemnity.
As nouns the difference between regularity and solemnity
is that regularity is (uncountable) the condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline while solemnity is the quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.regularity
English
Noun
- I have been watching that show with regularity .
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Antonyms
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* *solemnity
English
Noun
(solemnities)- the solemnity of a funeral
- The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shows itself in the solemnity of their language.
- These promises were often made with great solemnity and confirmed with an oath.
- Great was the cause; our old solemnities / From no blind zeal or fond tradition rise, / But saved from death, our Argives yearly pay / These grateful honours to the god of day.
- The forms and solemnities of the last judgment.