Dictionary Definition
rarity
Noun
1 noteworthy scarcity [syn: rareness, infrequency]
2 a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper
atmosphere" [syn: tenuity, low
density]
3 something unusual -- perhaps worthy of
collecting [syn: curio,
curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
a rare object
- Finnish: harvinaisuus
- Italian: rarità
a measure of the scarcity of an object
- Finnish: harvinaisuus
- Italian: scarsità
References
Extensive Definition
Rarity can refer to:
- something that is rare or scarce
People, including:
- John Rarity, English physicist
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abnormality, airiness, airy texture,
amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing,
astonishment,
attenuation,
chinchiness,
chintziness,
conversation piece, curio,
curiosity, dearth, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, ethereality, exception, exceptionality, exiguity, exility, extraordinariness,
fabulousness,
fewness, find, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness, gazingstock, gossameriness, gracility, impossibility, improbability, inconceivability,
incredibility,
increditability,
infrequence,
infrequency,
insubstantiality,
laciness, lightness, marvel, marvelment, marvelousness, meagerness, miracle, miserliness, mistiness, museum piece,
mythicalness,
niggardliness,
nonesuch, occasionalness, oddity, paperiness, paucity, phenomenon, poverty, prodigiosity, prodigiousness, prodigy, quite a thing, rareness, remarkableness, restrictedness, scant
sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seldomness, sensation, sight, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, slowness, smallness, something else,
sparseness, sparsity, spectacle, stinginess, strange thing,
stringency, stunner, stupendousness, subtility, tenuity, thinness, tightness, treasure, uncommonness, unfrequentness, uniqueness, unordinariness, unusualness, unwontedness, vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment