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circularity

[ UK /sˌɜːkjʊlˈæɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure

How To Use circularity In A Sentence

  • His narrative has a circularity that makes the reader's head spin.
  • What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity?
  • Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
  • (Sometimes circularity is called or confused with ellipticity, but I prefer the former.) What is Your Equation?
  • As you have noticed from the arguably strange format of this writing, there is a certain kind of circularity to it: I tell you something, I get your mind-flow going making new associations between familiar words that, hopefully, lead to, not exactly epiphanies, but minor yet possibly useful insights. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words
  • Indeed, the finiteness of language itself implies that the call for definition must at some point either end or issue in circularity. Aiguy's Computer
  • Crown, Kether, involves the idea of circularity and is endless, 753-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Paul de Man, who introduced the deconstructionist theory of Jacques Derrida to American readers after the New Criticism had become a received orthodoxy, detected in the New Critics a "foreknowledge" of what he called, borrowing a phrase from the Swiss critic Georges Poulet, "hermeneutic circularity. The Decline and Fall of Literature
  • Does all of this mean that there is a kind of fatal circularity in neuroscience - that the brain necessarily uses itself to study itself?
  • Valery represents the circularity of both the sunset and contemplation in the pauseless pace of lines two and three, and by his emphasis of particular rhymes.
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