seasonality
Calendar-driven fluctuation pattern
Seasonality is the quality of varying by season.
Businesses track seasonality in sales—ice cream peaks in summer, coats in winter.
Economists adjust data for seasonality to reveal underlying trends.
The term appears in contexts from retail to epidemiology: The flu shows strong seasonality, with most cases occurring in winter months.
Occurring every year
- quarterlyFour times annually
- biannualTwice per year
- semiannualTwice per year
- calendarDate-tracking system
quarters · spring · summer · autumn · winter · equinox · solstice · fluctuation
Movement to new territory
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- hibernationProlonged winter dormancy
- dormancySuspended biological activity
- growthIncrease in size
phenology · blooming · spawning · molting · monsoon · climate · flora · fauna
Gathering mature crops
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- cropCultivated agricultural plants
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
rotation · fallow · irrigation · orchard · vineyard · reaping · threshing · grain
Leisure travel sector
- pricingEstablishing monetary amounts charged
- demandForceful request or requirement
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- promotionsElevations in position
retail · peak · off-peak · holiday · clearance · shopping · sales · booking
Gathered set of items
- runwayPaved path for planes
- lookbookCurated fashion photo collection
- trendsPrevailing directions of change
- paletteSurface for mixing pigments
silhouette · wardrobe · designer · apparel · capsule · ready-to-wear · transitional · layering
annual
Occurring every year
- quarterlyFour times annually
- biannualTwice per year
- semiannualTwice per year
calendar · quarters · spring · summer · autumn · winter · equinox · solstice · fluctuation · recurrence
migration
Movement to new territory
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- hibernationProlonged winter dormancy
- dormancySuspended biological activity
growth · phenology · blooming · spawning · molting · monsoon · climate · flora · fauna · pollination
harvest
Gathering mature crops
sowing · rotation · fallow · irrigation · orchard · vineyard · reaping · threshing · grain · winnowing
tourism
Leisure travel sector
- pricingEstablishing monetary amounts charged
- demandForceful request or requirement
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
promotions · retail · peak · off-peak · holiday · clearance · shopping · sales · booking · availability
collection
Gathered set of items
- runwayPaved path for planes
- lookbookCurated fashion photo collection
- trendsPrevailing directions of change
palette · silhouette · wardrobe · designer · apparel · capsule · ready-to-wear · transitional · layering
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- Growth Metricsgrowth rate, annual growth, revenue growth, organic growth, rapid growth
- food philosophiesfarm to table, slow food, sustainability, nose to tail, zero waste
- tea ceremonytea ceremony, tea master, tea bowl, tea room, matcha
- Time Seriestime series, trend, forecast, forecasting, autocorrelation
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
seasonalityrandomness
Lack of predictable pattern
unpredictability · noise · chaos · irregularity · haphazardness
seasonalityconstancy
Unchanging faithfulness over time
stability · steadiness · uniformity · invariance · consistency
season, seasoning, seasoned, seasonal, seasons, seasonally, unseasonable, preseason, off-season