recidivityn.
/ˌrɪsᵻˈdɪvᵻti/, U.S. /ˌrɪsɪˈdɪvᵻdi/, /ˌrisɪˈdɪvᵻdi/ 1. Chiefly Medicine. Recurrence or relapse (of a disease). Cf. recidive n. 1. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > relapse
recidivationc1425
resiluation1513
relapse1584
recidive1596
reciduity1598
recidivity1884
1884 C.H. Burnett Ear (ed. 2) 501 All aural tumors belonging to any of the four classes..are entirely benignant, showing no..tendency towards recidivity after thorough removal and proper after-treatment.
1890 H. A. Hare Text-bk. Pract. Therapeutics iv. 553 The secondary eruption [of syphilis] in such cases disappears in from two to eight months, after which time the patient is perfectly well, recidivity being far less common than when mercury has been employed in the early stages of the disease.
1904 Lancet 12 Nov. 1371/1 By means of drugs..we may hope to reduce the recidivity of malaria but not to suppress it.
1971 Cryobiology 8 401/1 These 22 animals survived 6 months and did not show any signs of recidivity.
2. = recidivism n. Also: an instance of this.
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > moral fall or lapse > moral relapse
recidivationa1425
relapsec1475
resiluation1513
residuationa1535
relapsing1591
quadrulapse1595
recumbency1601
recidivism1884
recidivity1890
1890 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 3 391 As to the relation of recidivity to the carcerial system..about six sevenths of the men are allured into relapse.
1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Recidivity, tendency to relapse.
1937 G. Frankau More of Us xii. 123 Man asks you..not to nag him for his recidivities.
1951 N. Morris Habitual Criminal iii. 184 An irrebuttable statutory presumption of incorrigibility, a presumption founded solely upon recidivity.
1995 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Jan. f1 The recidivity, that is the recurrence of the usage [of cocaine], is about 90 per cent after drying someone out at a clinic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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