Classes Abstract Relations Time Recurrent Time
Recurrent Time
Verbs
recur etc. Repetition
do nothing but
keep, keep on.
Adjectives
frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick
uniform
repeated etc. Repetition
customary etc. Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence] -habit-includes-commonness-due-to-frequency-of-occurrence">Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence] (habit) 613
regular (normal) Normality
according to rule etc. (conformable) Conformity . common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar. old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.
Adverbs
often, oft
ofttimes, oftentimes
frequently
repeatedly etc. Repetition
unseldom, not unfrequently
in quick succession, in rapid succession
many a time and oft
daily, hourly etc.
every day, every hour, every moment etc. , perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence] . most often
commonly etc. (habitually) Habit [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence] . sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, often enough, when the mood strikes, again and again.
Nouns
infrequency, rareness, rarity
fewness etc. Fewness
seldomness
uncommonness.
Adjectives
unfrequent, infrequent
rare, rare as a blue diamond
few etc. Fewness
scarce
almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience
not since Adam. scarce as hen's teeth
one in a million
few and far between.
Adverbs
seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly
not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently, unoften
scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever
once in a blue moon. once
once in a blue moon
once in a million years
once for all, once in a way
Nouns
periodicity, intermittence
beat
oscillation etc. [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro.] Oscillation
pulse, pulsation
rhythm
alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity. bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say. anniversary, jubilee, centenary. catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux. [Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine
days of the week
Sunday, Monday etc.
months of the year
January etc.
feast, fast etc.
Christmas, Easter, New Year's day etc.
Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day
All Souls', All Souls' Day
Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day [U.S.] , Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day [U.S.] , St. Swithin's day, natal day
yearbook
yuletide. punctuality, regularity, steadiness.
Verbs
recur in regular order, recur in regular succession
return, revolve
come again, come in its turn
come round, come round again
beat, pulsate
alternate
intermit.
Adjectives
periodic, periodical
serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical
recurring etc. v.
intermittent, remittent
alternate, every other. hourly
diurnal, daily
quotidian, tertian, weekly
hebdomadal, hebdomadary
biweekly, fortnightly
bimonthly
catamenial
monthly, menstrual
yearly, annual
biennial, triennial, c.
centennial, secular
paschal, lenten, c. regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork.
Adverbs
periodically etc. adj.
at regular intervals, at stated times
at fixed established, at established periods
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.
Nouns
irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality
fitfulness etc. adj.
capriciousness, ecrhythmus.
Adjectives
irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering
rambling, rhapsodical
spasmodic
immethodical, unmethodical, variable.