OFTENNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oftenness mean? 

• OFTENNESS (noun)
  The noun OFTENNESS has 1 sense:

1. the number of occurrences within a given time period

  Familiarity information: OFTENNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFTENNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of occurrences within a given time period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

frequence; frequency; oftenness

Context example:

the frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older

Hypernyms ("oftenness" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oftenness"):

audio; audio frequency (an audible acoustic wave frequency)

radio frequency (an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared)

infrared; infrared frequency (the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum; electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range)

wave number (the reciprocal of the wavelength of a wave)

attendance (the frequency with which a person is present)

count per minute; counts/minute (frequency per minute)

sampling frequency ((telecommunication) the frequency of sampling a continuously varying signal)