epidemicityn.
/ˌɛpᵻdᵻˈmɪsᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɛpədəˈmɪsᵻdi/ The property or fact of occurring in epidemics or being an epidemic; epidemic nature. Also: the frequency or pattern of occurrence of an epidemic disease.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence > universality
universality?c1400
university1553
universalness1561
universalty1567
epidemicalness1646
allnessa1649
epidemicity1716
universalism1835
catholicity1868
globality1931
1716 E. Strother Criticon Febrium iii. 110 'Tis plain therefore that these Three Subdivisions of Continual Fevers are different Degrees of the same Species, and are only distinguishable by the Degrees of Danger and Epidemicity.
1880 J. Fayrer in Nature 8 Jan. 229/1 Not..that our enquiries should be restricted to mere epidemicity alone; we cannot advantageously study one phase of the natural history of disease and exclude others.
1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxxii. 420 In this country, measles exhibits a definite biennial epidemicity.
2019 Frontiers in Pediatrics Feb. 18 It is suspected that infection is involved because KD [= Kawasaki disease] has epidemicity and seasonality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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