intermittence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ter=mit=tence

CIDE DICTIONARY

intermittence, n. [Cf. F. intermittence.].

 Act or state of intermitting; intermission.  Tyndall.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

intermittence

abeyance, alternation, arrhythmia, beat, break, broken thread, brokenness, caesura, capriciousness, cease-fire, choppiness, coffee break, cyclicalness, day off, desultoriness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, disjunction, downtime, drop, eccentricity, episode, erraticness, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, half time, half-time intermission, hesitation, holiday, incoherence, incompleteness, inconstancy, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittency, interregnum, interruption, interval, irregularity, jerkiness, lapse, layoff, letup, lull, meter, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonuniformity, off-time, oscillation, parenthesis, patchiness, pause, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plateau, point of repose, pulsation, quiet spell, reappearance, recess, recurrence, regular wave motion, relief, remission, reoccurrence, respite, rest, resting point, return, rhythm, roughness, seasonality, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stand-down, stay, suspension, time off, time out, truce, uncertainty, undulation, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacation, variability, whimsicality, wobble

ROGET THESAURUS

intermittence

Time

N time, duration, period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season, the whole time, the whole period, space-time, course, snap, intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency, intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude, respite, era, epoch, time of life, age, year, date, decade, moment, glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time, arrow of time, river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time, scythe, continuing, on foot, permanent, while, whilst, during, pending, during the time, during the interval, in the course of, at that point, at that point in time, for the time being, day by day, in the time of, when, meantime, meanwhile, in the meantime, in the interim, ad interim, pendente lite, de die in diem, from day to day, from hour to hour, hourly, always, for a time, for a season, till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point, the whole time, all the time, all along, throughout, for good, hereupon, thereupon, whereupon, then, anno Domini, A, D, ante Christum, A, C, before Christ, B, C, anno urbis conditae, A, U, C, anno regni, A, R, once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once, time flies, tempus fugit, time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, time and tide wait for no man, ad calendas Groecas, panting Time toileth after him in vain, 'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion, rich with the spoils of time, tempus edax rerum, the long hours come and go, the time is out of joint, Time rolls his ceaseless course, Time the foe of man's dominion, time wasted is existence, used is life, truditur dies die, volat hora per orbem, carpe diem.

Periodicity

N regularity of recurrence, periodicity, intermittence, beat, oscillation, pulse, pulsation, rhythm, alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say, anniversary, jubilee, centenary, catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine, days of the week, Sunday, Monday, months of the year, January, feast, fast, Christmas, Easter, New Year's day, Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day, All Souls', All Souls' Day, Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day, yearbook, yuletide, punctuality, regularity, steadiness, periodic, periodical, serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical, recurring, intermittent, remittent, alternate, every other, hourly, diurnal, daily, quotidian, tertian, weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, biweekly, fortnightly, bimonthly, catamenial, monthly, menstrual, yearly, annual, biennial, triennial, centennial, secular, paschal, lenten, regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork, periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed established, at established periods, punctually, de die in diem, from day to day, day by day, by turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round.