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cyclicality

cyclicality

1 8.0
A pattern where events happen again and again in regular cycles
  • noun
  • /ˌsaɪklɪˈkæləti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : ciclicidad
  • The cyclicality of consumer spending often influences economic forecasts and business strategies.

We talked about the cyclicality of our industry a little bit.

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Examples

  • Importantly, we are able to rule out the possibility that the cyclicality might be mostly due to learning by the party in municipal office over the course of its term: the cycles are present even when the party in office does not change.

    Academic text (2016)
  • I may get to Konczal later, but the discussion of the cyclicality of trading/investment banking profits and the Stoller charts rebut Konczal's position that Dodd-Frank is significant.

    Blog text (33)
  • We talked about the cyclicality of our industry a little bit.

  • The price cyclicality can be seen from this table.

    Blog text (10)
  • Are benefit costs increasingly driving the cyclicality of employment?

    Blog text (15)
  • Note that the profile of sales volume shows cyclicality with respect to product launches.

    Blog text (17)
  • Cyclicality is a part of the game in adland, but parting ways with a client after just a matter of months is rare.

    Blog text (24)
  • I find that the benefit costs' rising trend, cyclicality, and interactions with financial conditions have contributed significantly to the observed slow employment growth following the three most recent recessions in the U.S.

    Blog text (15)
  • Now that these former stand-alone businesses are mingled in with the broader "banking" industry, which includes the more stable retail banking and asset management businesses, the extreme cyclicality of the trading engine has been missed in the analysis of industry dynamics by casual observers.

    Blog text (33)
  • Abstract: I document (1) the slow rebound in U.S. aggregate employment following recent recessions, despite recoveries in output, as well as (2) a rising trend in per worker benefit costs, the cyclicality of those costs, and a positive correlation of the cyclical benefit costs with employment growth cycles.

    Blog text (15)

Synonyms

periodicity
vscyclicality
2 7.6

A regular pattern when something happens again at set times

shows cyclic patterns not necessarily strictly regular often used in economics
cyclicity
vscyclicality
  • Specialized
8.5

A repeated pattern that happens at regular times

is used especially for cycles in economics and similar areas

Antonyms

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

4 5.3

A steady loyalty to someone or something over time

How Cyclical

cyclicality
  • Specialized
1 8.0
periodicity
2 7.6
irregularity
13 5.1

Surface Forms

cyclicality singular
cyclicalities plural

Morphology

cyclicality = cyclical (transparent) = cycle + al + ity

Formed from the adjective 'cyclical' plus the nominalizing suffix '-ity', yielding the meaning 'the quality of being cyclical'.

Etymology

The word cyclicality comes from the simple word cycle, which comes from an old word meaning 'circle'. Imagine a wheel or a bicycle wheel that turns again and again. That image explains why cyclicality means the tendency of things to happen again and again in a pattern, like the regular ups and downs in an economy.