intermittence
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈmɪtəns/
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intermitencia
- The intermittence of the rain made it difficult to plan our outdoor event.
If I had to guess, I would guess that you may have had some intermittence for business and your brain was already getting kind of hit.
- If I had to guess, I would guess that you may have had some intermittence for business and your brain was already getting kind of hit.
Examples
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The intermittence of the power supply caused frequent disruptions in our daily activities.
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Science is still in the process of discovering the intermittences that the body knows—"intermittences of the heart," as Proust phrased it in his search.
Academic text (1994) -
If I had to guess, I would guess that you may have had some intermittence for business and your brain was already getting kind of hit.
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He himself was momentarily elsewhere; he was subject to these intermittences.
Fiction book (2001) -
Science is still in the process of discovering the intermittences that the body knows—"intermittences of the heart," as Proust phrased it in his search.
Academic text (1994) -
The suspensive caesuras decline waiting and the passage of time, but they also variously manipulate laws of intermittence, resolution, and inertia that pertain to meaning.
Academic text (1999) -
However intimately Barthes's writing proved its connection with gay sexuality, the link was so discreet that it seemed only to emerge in the coy or hapless intermittence of what, under the circumstances, I could hardly pretend to reduce to just his repression.
Academic text (1992) -
Due to the intermittence in communication, we missed several important updates.
Synonyms
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A pattern of something happening sometimes and stopping at other times
Antonyms
How Intermittent
Surface Forms
Morphology
intermittence = intermittent (transparent) = intermit + ence
The noun is a regular abstract noun built from the adjective 'intermittent' plus '-ence', so its meaning is straightforwardly recoverable.
Etymology
The word intermittence comes from the parts inter- meaning 'between' and mittere meaning 'to send', and the mit part is the same you see in familiar words like transmit or permit. So, think of things being 'sent between' times that stop and start, which is why intermittence means 'stopping and starting' or happening at 'irregular' times.