crebrity

English

Etymology

crebrous +‎ -ity

Noun

crebrity (uncountable)

1. (rare, formal or obsolete) The state or quality of being crebrous; close succession; frequency of occurrence; numerosity.
   • 1710, John Floyer, The Physicians Pulse-Watch - Or an Essay to Explain the Old Art of Feeling of the Pulse, Kaiserliche Hofbibliothek Publishing, page 174

     The immoderate crebrity of the pulse is a sign of a syncope.

   • 1740, William Stukeley, Stonehenge: A Temple Restored to the British Druids,, (unpaginated)

     The two outward circles do not hinder the sight, but add much to the solemnity of the place and the duties, by the crebrity and variety of their intervals.

   • 1966, Walter Charleton & Robert Hugh Kargon, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, Johnson Reprint Corporation - The Michigan State University Press, page 223

     And this we conceive more than sufllicient evidence of the verity of the first part of our thesis; that a Sound is not generated in the air by the velocity, but crebrity of motion.

See also

• crebrous