irregularity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ir=reg=u=lar=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

irregularity, n. [Cf. F. irrégularité.].

 The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

irregularity

Nonuniformity

N nonuniformity, diversity, irregularity, unevenness, multiformity, unconformity, roughness, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence, diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough, multifarious, multiform, of various kinds, all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of, variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere.

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Unconformity

N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.

Irregularity of recurrence

N irregularity of recurrence, irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality, fitfulness, capriciousness, ecrhythmus, irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering, rambling, rhapsodical, spasmodic, immethodical, unmethodical, variable, irregularly, by fits and starts.

Distortion

N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.