Irregularity

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Irregularity \Ir*reg`u*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Irregularities}. [Cf.
     F. irr['e]gularit['e].]
     The state or quality of being irregular; that which is
     irregular.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  irregularity
       n 1: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or
            morality [syn: {abnormality}]
       2: not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular
          intervals [syn: {unregularity}] [ant: {regularity}]
       3: an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial
          pattern [syn: {geometrical irregularity}]
       4: irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the
          bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or
          diverticulitis [syn: {constipation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  248 Moby Thesaurus words for "irregularity":
     Bohemianism, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality,
     abnormity, affability, amorphism, anamorphism, anamorphosis,
     anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, asperity, asymmetry,
     broken thread, brokenness, buckle, bumpiness, capriciousness,
     cardialgia, casualness, changeability, changeableness,
     cholera morbus, choppiness, colic, common touch, conceit,
     constipation, contortion, contrariety, cordiality, costiveness,
     crackpotism, cragginess, crank, crankiness, crankism, crookedness,
     crotchet, crotchetiness, dappleness, derangement, desultoriness,
     detorsion, deviability, deviancy, deviation, diarrhea, difference,
     differentiation, differentness, disarrangement, disarray,
     disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness,
     disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation,
     discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disequilibrium,
     disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder,
     disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportion,
     disruption, distortion, disturbance, divarication, divergence,
     diversification, dottiness, dysentery, dyspepsia, ease, easiness,
     easygoingness, eccentricity, entropy, episode, erraticism,
     erraticness, familiarity, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness,
     flux, folksiness, freakiness, freakishness, gnarl, graciousness,
     granulation, gripe, gripes, haphazardness, harshness, heartburn,
     heterogeneity, heteromorphism, hispidity, homeliness, homeyness,
     idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbalance, impulsiveness, inadequacy,
     incoherence, incompleteness, inconsistency, inconstancy,
     indigestion, indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inferiority,
     informality, informalness, inharmonious harmony, injustice,
     instability, insufficiency, intermittence, jaggedness, jerkiness,
     joltiness, kink, knot, lientery, looseness, lopsidedness, maggot,
     mannerism, mercuriality, monstrosity, moodiness,
     most admired disorder, motleyness, mutability, naturalness,
     non sequitur, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncontinuance,
     nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonstandardization, nonsymmetry,
     nonuniformity, obstipation, oddity, odds, offhandedness,
     overbalance, parenthesis, peculiarity, perturbation, plainness,
     pluralism, promiscuity, promiscuousness, pyrosis, queerness, quip,
     quirk, quirkiness, raggedness, randomness, relaxedness,
     restlessness, rough air, roughness, ruggedness, rugosity,
     scraggliness, screw, shiftiness, shortcoming, simplicity,
     singularity, sociability, strangeness, subnormality, superiority,
     teratism, tooth, torsion, tortuosity, trick, trots, turbulence,
     turn, twist, unaffectedness, unbalance, unceremoniousness,
     uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, unconstrainedness,
     unconstraint, unconventionality, undependability, unevenness,
     unfair discrimination, unfixedness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness,
     unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unpretentiousness, unreliability,
     unsettledness, unsmoothness, unstableness, unsteadfastness,
     unsteadiness, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, variability,
     variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility,
     wantonness, warp, wavering, waywardness, whim, whimsicality,
     whimsy, wrench, wrest, wring
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IRREGULARITY, practice. The doing or not doing that in the conduct of a suit 
  at law, which, conformably with the practice of the court, ought or ought 
  not to be done. 
       2. A party entitled to complain of irregularity, should except to it 
  previously to taking any step by him in the cause; Lofft. 323, 333; because 
  the taking of any such step is a waiver of any irregularity. 1 Bos. k Phil. 
  342; 2 Smith's R. 391; 1 Taunt. R. 58; 2 Taunt. R. 243; 3 East, R. 547; 2 
  New R. 509; 2 Wils. R. 380. 
       3. The court will, on motion, set aside proceedings for irregularity. 
  On setting aside a judgment and execution for irregularity, they have power 
  to impose terms on the defendant, and will restrain him from bringing an 
  action of trespass, unless a strong case of damage appears. 1 Chit. R. 133, 
  n.; and see Baldw. R. 246. Vide 3 Chit. Pr. 509; and Regular and Irregular 
  Process. 
       4. In the canon law, this term is used to signify any impediment which 
  prevents a man from taking holy orders.