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rhythm has 10 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
“the piece has a fast rhythm”
recurring at regular intervals
an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
“the never-ending cycle of the seasons”
the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
“the rhythm of Frost's poetry”
natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for rhythm come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.