intermittence

intermittence (countable and uncountable, plural intermittences)

1. The state of being sporadic or intermittent; a lack of flow or fluency.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 270:

     I remember he wound up with my health, proposed in a speech of small variety and considerable intermittence.

• intermittent

intermittence f (plural intermittences)

1. intermittence

• “intermittence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.