occurrences

Instances of events

Occurrences is the plural of occurrence, meaning events or instances of something happening.

The word emphasizes that something has taken place, often with attention to frequency or pattern: There have been three occurrences of theft this month.

In technical contexts, occurrences may refer to instances of a word, symbol, or data element appearing in a text or dataset: The search found 47 occurrences of the term.

counting

tally

Recorded count

sum · instances · cases · records · logs · entries · documentation · tracking · tabulation · enumeration

frequency

rate

Measured speed or charge

periodicity · repetition · commonality · density · distribution · sporadic · intermittent · infrequent · repeated · multiple

textual

mention

Brief verbal acknowledgment

instance · usage · example · context · passage · excerpt · hit · match · search · index

events

incident

A distinct event

phenomenon · situation · circumstance · development · occasion · manifestation · encounter · experience · affair · proceeding

natural

sighting

Instance of perceiving something

meteor · flood · drought · eruption · bloom · migration · spawning · hatching · phenomenon · outbreak

Categories
Opposites
existence/presence

occurrencesabsences

States of being away

lacks · non-events · voids · gaps · omissions

eventfulness

occurrencesinactivity

Lack of movement

stillness · stasis · uneventfulness · quiet · lulls

happening vs. non-happening

occurrencesnon-events

Unremarkable, overhyped occurrences

preventions · avoidances

Phrases
Family

occurrence, reoccurrence, nonoccurrence, reoccurrences

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