RHYTHMICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhythmicity mean? 

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

1. the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHYTHMICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

sound property (an attribute of sound)

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

meter; metre; time (rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration)

cadence; cadency (a recurrent rhythmical series)

lilt; swing (a jaunty rhythm in music)

Derivation:

rhythmic (recurring with measured regularity)

 Context examples 

Continued electrical rhythmicity of the heart in the absence of effective mechanical function.

(Electromechanical Dissociation by ECG Finding, Food and Drug Administration)