Adjective : gradual improvement in health. ,a gradual slope.    From Dictionary.com. 

In accordance with the Fabian theory of the "inevitability of gradualness," where is OEN goingwith these polls?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: OEN Poll Demographics Analysis Goes Live] Reference

It is but the gradualness of the "enzymes or metabolism" paradox resolution that fails miserably – Zn world did it inherently at the outset.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System | Universe Today] Reference

Human civilisation is itself a continuous and frequently violent revolution against Nature's basic doctrine of the inevitability of gradualness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities] Reference

The stealth, and the gradualness, which seemed to characterize what was going on, did not suggest the activities of authorized representatives of Miles of Argentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kajira Of Gor]

Actually, the gradualness of their descent helped control the turbidity, so whenever Dortmunder aimed his flashlight back up the track there was very little extra roiling of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowned Hopes]

He followed the advance of the railways that abbreviated time and conquered space as they unified America, but he knew that these technological changes had been anticipated, with epochal gradualness, by nature itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer] Reference

But it would do no harm, on the contrary it would have good results, if that urge would accept direction and guidance when this is needed; would show a greater appreciation of the permanence and the inevitability of gradualness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada and the Commonwealth] Reference

When she became aware of Cadfael and his mule, she straightened her back with the right cautious gradualness and a true gardener's grunt, and turned upon him shrewd brown eyes under brows quizzically oblique, very knowing eyes that took him in from cowl to sandals in one sweeping glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

There is, to be sure, a decisive case in favor of gradualness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Totten's Weblog] Reference

Nor does the gradualness of their evolution rob them of their mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678] Reference

The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference

I love the way he peels back the veneer of reality with such excruciating gradualness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

But the patient expectance of Noah comes out strongly in the story, as well as the gradualness of God's working.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

Hamas adopts the principle of gradualness, both with regard to the creation of an Islamic society and an Islamic State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

Nevertheless, the triumph of socialism was guaranteed through what Sidney Webb called "the inevitability of gradualness".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

But if the gradualness of this process misled the Romans there were other and equally potent reasons for their blindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval People] Reference

'He will guide you' -- suggesting a loving hand put out to lead; suggesting the graciousness, the gentleness, the gradualness of the teaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference

The gradualness of the process, the long preparation of each class of citizens, the slow political education of the masses, all of which forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Unrest] Reference

"China will unwaveringly advance reform of the renminbi exchange rate formation mechanism based on the principles of maintaining initiative, control and gradualness," Hong said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The bishop attempts to justify his pro-condom position using the so-called law of gradualness, according to which "while a general law affirms, demands and promotes values, these should not crush a concrete person in very particular situations ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Clerical Whispers] Reference

His Holiness affirmed: "And so, what is known as 'the law of gradualness' or step-by-step advance cannot be identified with 'gradualness of the law,' as if there were different degrees or forms of precept in God's law for different individuals and situations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Clerical Whispers] Reference

"Cumulative" means gradualness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Lectures on Reincarnation] Reference

To sum up the argument to this point: War, the Roosevelt-Truman programs, and the doctrines of Constitutional Law on which they rest, and the conception of governmental function which they incorporate, have all tremendously strengthened forces which even earlier were making, slowly, to be sure, but with "the inevitability of gradualness," for the concentration of governmental power in the United States, first in the hands of the National Government; and, secondly, in the hands of the national Executive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference