regularityre‧gu‧lar‧i‧ty /ˌreɡjəˈlærəti/ noun (plural regularities) 
Climate change is disrupting the regularity of the seasons.with alarming/increasing etc regularity Our team kept losing with monotonous regularity (=in a way that seems boring or annoying).2[countable, uncountable] when something is arranged in an even way: the regularity of his features
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- A good programmer can take anything known, any regularity, and cleverly reduce it in size.
- At Ohio State, Pace flattened defensive line men with regularity.
- But the striking and distinguishing feature of organisms is organisation without such simple spatial regularity.
- His life was one of unambitious regularity.
- Interest and dividends are paid with regularity.
- The ineffable Louis Stanley, operating from his suite in the Dorchester, launched new but already outmoded cars with monotonous regularity.
- They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order.
- Those groundbreaking roles came to me with a great deal of regularity.
Longman Language Activatortoo often, in a way that is annoying
especially spoken to do something many times, in a way that is annoying: · Dad, Bobby keeps hitting me!· How can I explain if you keep on interrupting me?· I keep forgetting to mail this letter.
if someone or something is always doing something, or someone or something does something all the time , it annoys you because they do it too often: · I'm sick of Harold, he's always telling me what to do.· What do you mean you never see me? You're at my house all the time.· I don't know about you, but I'm always having arguments with people!· He was always trying to persuade me to go out drinking with him.
use this when you are very annoyed because something happens repeatedly over a long period of time: · They seemed to be continually arguing.· I wish you'd clean up your room without having to be constantly reminded.
spoken if someone or something is forever doing something, they annoy you by doing it very often over a long period of time: · He never does his homework on time and is forever getting into trouble at school.· We bought a new washing machine. The old one was forever breaking down.
spoken say this when you are describing something annoying or bad that someone does very often: · Half the time the managers don't know what's going on.· I never know where he is - half the time he doesn't return my phone calls.
use this to say that something has been done many times, especially when this is annoying or does not have any effect: · I've told you time and time again not to play with matches - it's dangerous.· I see people making the same mistakes, time and time again.
if something happens with great regularity , it keeps happening, often in an annoying way: · Yes, the bank keep piling these outrageous charges on my bank account with great regularity.· With great regularity, wasps would fly in through the open window and get trapped behind the glass.
if someone talks about something ad nauseam , they talk about it for so long that it becomes very annoying or boring: · We've discussed this ad nauseam, and I don't see the point of going over the same ground again.· He goes on ad nauseam about how much better everything was in the old days.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Our team kept losing with monotonous regularity (=in a way that seems boring or annoying).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a little boy who wet his bed with monotonous regularityCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Our team kept losing with monotonous regularity (=in a way that seems boring or annoying). a little boy who wet his bed with monotonous regularity· Lloyds, Southeys and Wordsworths appeared on most subscribers' lists with great regularity.· Those groundbreaking roles came to me with a great deal of regularity.
· The ineffable Louis Stanley, operating from his suite in the Dorchester, launched new but already outmoded cars with monotonous regularity.· Indeed, he was a sickly child, succumbing with monotonous regularity to ear and throat infections.· This magnet for unwanted paper will fill up and overflow with monotonous regularity and should be abolished.· He was still hitting greens with monotonous regularity, but on the putting surface his touch had deserted him.· Learners like hand-outs, but they should not be used with monotonous regularity to echo everything the teacher says.
VERB· Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men.
WORD FAMILYnounregularregularity ≠ irregularityregularizationadjectiveregular ≠ irregularverbregularizeadverbregularly ≠ irregularly
1[uncountable] when the same thing keeps happening often, especially with the same amount of time between each occasion when it happens: Climate change is disrupting the regularity of the seasons.with alarming/increasing etc regularity Our team kept losing with monotonous regularity (=in a way that seems boring or annoying).2[countable, uncountable] when something is arranged in an even way: the regularity of his features