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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
irregularity \irreg`ular"ity\, n.; pl. irregularities. cf.
   f. irr'egularit'e.
   the state or quality of being irregular; that which is
   irregular.
   1913 webster
see also:
irregularities 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
irregularity
     n 1: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or
          morality syn: abnormality
     2: not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular
        intervals syn: unregularity ant: regularity
     3: an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial
        pattern syn: geometrical irregularity
     4: irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the
        bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or
        diverticulitis syn: constipation
see also:
abnormality unregularity regularity geometrical irregularity constipation 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
248 moby thesaurus words for "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




[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
irregularity, practice. the doing or not doing that in the conduct of a suit 
at law, which, conformably with the practice of the court, ought or ought 
not to be done. 
     2. a party entitled to complain of irregularity, should except to it 
previously to taking any step by him in the cause; lofft. 323, 333; because 
the taking of any such step is a waiver of any irregularity. 1 bos. k phil. 
342; 2 smith's r. 391; 1 taunt. r. 58; 2 taunt. r. 243; 3 east, r. 547; 2 
new r. 509; 2 wils. r. 380. 
     3. the court will, on motion, set aside proceedings for irregularity. 
on setting aside a judgment and execution for irregularity, they have power 
to impose terms on the defendant, and will restrain him from bringing an 
action of trespass, unless a strong case of damage appears. 1 chit. r. 133, 
n.; and see baldw. r. 246. vide 3 chit. pr. 509; and regular and irregular 
process. 
     4. in the canon law, this term is used to signify any impediment which 
prevents a man from taking holy orders. 




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