serialityn.
/ˌsɪərɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌsɪriˈælədi/ Serial arrangement; the fact or state of being arranged or ordered in a series.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > action or fact of forming a series
seriousnessc1487
seriality1855
serialization1856
seriation1859
serialism1897
1849 E. Lankester tr. M. J. Schleiden Princ. Sci. Bot. iii. ii. 388 Quite a different explanation..of the bi-seriality [Ger. Zweireihigkeit] of the seed-buds.]
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iv. i. 500 The advance of the correspondence of itself necessitates a growing seriality in the psychical changes.
1879 Trans. Zool. Soc. 10 211 In the lower view..the seriality of these arches is well seen.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Nov. 1415/1 There was a want of seriality of thought closely allied to, and readily passing into, states of insanity.
1985 A. Giddens in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Structures xii. 268 Seriality and turn-taking are built into most forms of transportation.
2009 New Yorker 29 June 74/3 These politically circular stories, painful and faintly comic in their seriality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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