rhythmicity
(rɪðˈmɪsɪtɪ)
[f. rhythmic a. + -ity.]
Rhythmical quality or character; the capacity for maintaining a rhythm.
| 1901 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. (ed. 2) III. 109/2 The pulse rate presents more or less regular and extensive variations in the course of a day... They are hardly the expression of an inherent rhythmicity. 1910 Heart I. 217 The ventricles are freed of the influence of their pace-maker, and their rate of beat is consequently slow until the dormant rhythmicity becomes fully awakened. 1944 Mind LIII. 271 Variability in size, number, direction, space, distance and rhythmicity is probably the most important characteristic in the primitive visual field. 1969 Nature 23 Aug. 782/1 Cutting the nerves..which connect the corpora cardiaca to the sub-oesophageal ganglion..caused a gradual loss of rhythmicity in otherwise intact cockroaches. 1971 Chin-Wu Kim Survey Linguistic Sci. 63 It definitely has a tendency to maintain iambic rhythmicity. |