cyclicity
noun
cy·clic·i·ty
sī-ˈkli-sə-tē 
si-
variants
or cyclicality
ˌsī-klə-ˈka-lə-tē
ˌsi-
plural cyclicities or cyclicalities
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In many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
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Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
Yet the origin of the Reykjanes’ cyclicity of volcanic activity every thousand or so years remains unknown.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
Forewarned is forearmed, as the old adage goes, and astrology’s cyclicity is uniquely situated to provide forearming.
—Diana Rose Harper, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
The salmon are part of that river: a gift, a thing to be cared for, a manifestation of the cyclicity and reciprocity of a world in balance.
—National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2020
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Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
Yet the origin of the Reykjanes’ cyclicity of volcanic activity every thousand or so years remains unknown.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
Forewarned is forearmed, as the old adage goes, and astrology’s cyclicity is uniquely situated to provide forearming.
—Diana Rose Harper, Wired, 5 Jan. 2022
The salmon are part of that river: a gift, a thing to be cared for, a manifestation of the cyclicity and reciprocity of a world in balance.
—National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2020
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cyclicity
noun
cy·clic·i·ty
sī-ˈklis-ət-ē, sik-ˈlis-
plural cyclicities
: the quality or state of being cyclic
estrous cyclicity
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