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- noun The state of being
repetitive .
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- noun verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
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Examples
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One man's repetitiveness is another man's (or woman's) hammering home a point -- or something like that.
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Hitler also underscored several other key propaganda tenets, such as repetitiveness and simplicity:
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Both a high poly (A/T) and a high GC content result in an increased 'repetitiveness' and thus the propensity of polymerase slippage.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Per Sjödin et al. 2010
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AS THE MEDIA PRODUCED MASS HYSTERIA WORE OFF and the repetitiveness of the RHETORIC rang hollow there was nothing to cover the nakedness of the EMPEROR in his 'NEW' clothes.
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It made the series a Top 20 hit for three seasons, until even fans grew tired of the repetitiveness and it quickly faded away.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Treme Frustrating, Fun; Tangled; the Real Arthur and More! Michael Giltz 2011
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The story is, due to its repetitiveness neither too thrilling nor is it really historically exact.
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Some of this arises on the level of phrase and sentence "share a surprising amount in common," "its cyclicality, its repetitiveness".
Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011
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As so often in films like this, where the depressing repetitiveness of the abuse can be numbing, it was the more casual remarks, such as "Soni broke my spirit" and "It was a violent, loveless, sad place" that brought home the emotional damage.
TV review: Abused: Breaking the Silence; Submarine School 2011
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I mean, in terms of that process and the repetitiveness of it.
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His only criticisms were of its repetitiveness and woeful overuse of commas.
Daniel in a Den of Liberalism vic fortezza 2011
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