intermittency

Noun

Meaning

the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping

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Examples

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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