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graduality|grædjuːˈælɪtɪ|
[f. gradual a. + -ity.]
The quality or condition of being gradual, in various senses of the adj.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 322 Which..others [ascribe] to the graduality of opacity and light. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 134 An accident being on both sides graduated, cannot lay aside its graduality. 1806W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXI. 417 The accessory ideas of graduality and of change from internal causes are associated with the term. 1869Fortn. Rev. 1 Oct. 423 note, A striking instance of the graduality of the evolution of fetichism will be found in ‘Fiji and the Fijians’. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 42 The graduality of the stages by which life ascends. |