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单词 graduality
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gradualityn.

/ɡradjuːˈalɪti/
Etymology: < gradual adj. + -ity suffix.
The quality or condition of being gradual, in various senses of the adjective.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [noun]
devolution1629
induction1638
graduality1646
development1756
evolution1796
transition1800
evolvement1801
shading-off1858
transitioning1955
the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] > gradualness
graduality1806
gradualness1842
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 322 Which..others [ascribe] to the graduality of opacity and light. View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 134 An accident being on both sides graduated, cannot lay aside its graduality.
1806 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 21 417 The accessory ideas of graduality and of change from internal causes are associated with the term.
1869 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 423 (note) A striking instance of the graduality of the evolution of fetichism will be found in ‘Fiji and the Fijians’.
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 42 The graduality of the stages by which life ascends.
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