单词 | rhythmicality |
释义 | > as lemmasrhythmiˈcality rhythmiˈcality n. (a) rhythmic quality or nature; (b) sense of rhythm. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [noun] > rhythm or measure cadencec1384 modulation1531 measure1576 timekeeping1593 cadency1628 rhythmus1778 rhythmicality1817 1817 L. Hunt in Examiner 6 July 429/1 By no contrivance of any sort can we prevent this from jumping out of the heroic measure into mere rhythmicality. 1880 Philos. Trans. 1879 (Royal Soc.) 171 171 May it not be that those contractile tissues which in the higher animals manifest rhythmic action are the contractile tissues which have longest retained their primitive endowment of rhythmicality? 1885 G. J. Romanes Jelly-fish 186 The contractile tissues which have longest retained their primitive endowment of rhythmicality. 1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 320 An exciting and very Negroid rhythmicality. 1988 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 33 313 A subset of broader prosodic systems comprising such categories as tone, pitch, range, loudness, rhythmicality, pause, tension, and voice quality. 2008 Daily Tel. 2 July 27/2 All the fevered exuberance, brilliance and wily rhythmicality conformed to the image of Walton familiar from such works as Belshazzar's Feast. < as lemmas |
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