## Meanings
1. The state of continuing steadily over time without interruption.
2. Consistency between the different shots of a film or scenes of a story.

## Examples
- Keeping the same teacher all year gives the children a sense of continuity.
- A continuity error meant the actor's shirt changed colour between two shots.

## Synonyms
- continence
- continuousness
- flow
- ongoingness
- uninterruptedness

## Antonyms
- discontinuity
- noncontinuity
- unevenness

## Derived Forms
- bicontinuity
- discontinuity
- equicontinuity
- hemicontinuity
- noncontinuity
- retcon
- semicontinuity

## Related Forms
- continual
- continue
- continuousness

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: continuité
- Root: continuitas

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity.

## AI Etymology
Continuity is borrowed from Middle French continuité, from Latin continuitas. By surface analysis, continu(e) + -ity. Important historical forms include Middle French continuité, and Latin continuitas. In present-day use, it can mean the state of continuing steadily over time without interruption, or consistency between the different shots of a film or scenes of a story. Derived formations include bicontinuity, discontinuity, equicontinuity, hemicontinuity, noncontinuity.

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- Space, Position & Direction
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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