continuity

1. 1.

   uninterrupted connection or union

   Antonymsdiscontinuity

   Broadercoherence
2. 2.

   a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot

   Broaderscript
3. 3.

   the property of a continuous and connected period of time

   Synonymspersistence

   Broaderlastingness

Other forms of continuity

plural

continuities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about continuity

What does continuity mean?

continuity means "uninterrupted connection or union". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in continuity?

continuity has 5 syllables: con-ti-nu-i-ty. The stress falls on "nu". In IPA it is /ˌkɑntəˈnuəti/.

What is another word for continuity?

Close synonyms include persistence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of continuity?

The recorded antonyms are discontinuity.

Is continuity a common word?

continuity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with continuity?

1 word rhymes with continuity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.