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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality;
[syn: abnormality, irregularity]

2. not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals;
[syn: irregularity, unregularity]

3. an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern;
[syn: irregularity, geometrical irregularity]

4. irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis;
[syn: constipation, irregularity]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Irregularity \Ir*reg`u*lar"i*ty\, n.; pl. Irregularities. [Cf. F. irr['e]gularit['e].] The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

irregularity n 1: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality [syn: abnormality, irregularity] 2: not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals [syn: irregularity, unregularity] [ant: regularity] 3: an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern [syn: irregularity, geometrical irregularity] 4: irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis [syn: constipation, irregularity]
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
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.