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Etymology

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pulsive +‎ -ity

Noun

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pulsivity (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being pulsive.
    • 1991, D. C. Quarton, V. C. Fenton, Wind energy conversion 1991:
      Tonality or pulsivity makes a source better audible.
    • 1998, Bettina Liebowitz Knapp, Critical essays on Marguerite Duras:
      The complex connection between the two figures, the mother and the cry, is established in Duras' narratives through a certain oral pulsivity of the text.