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 Definitions of rarity  [ˈrɛər ɪ ti]  

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Definition of 'rarity' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) rarity
the state or quality of being rare.

2.  rarity
something rare or extremely uncommon.

3.  rarity
rare occurrence; infrequency.

4.  rarity
thinness, as of air or a gas.

Etymology:  (1550–60; < L)

Definition of 'rarity' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) rarity, rareness, infrequency
noteworthy scarcity

2. (noun) rarity, tenuity, low density
a rarified quality
"the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"

3. (noun) curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting


Definition of 'rarity' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) rarity
the quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases

2. (noun) rarity
that which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity


Translation of 'rarity' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the state of being uncommon.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: algemeen Arabic flag Arabic: نُدْرَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: рядкост
Brazilian flag Brazilian: raridade Czech flag Czech: vzácnost German flag German: die Ungewöhnlichkeit
Danish flag Danish: sjældenhed Greek flag Greek: σπανιότητα Spanish flag Spanish: rareza
Estonian flag Estonian: haruldus Farsi flag Farsi: کمیابی Finnish flag Finnish: harvinaisuus
French flag French: rareté Hebrew flag Hebrew: נְדִירוּת Hindi flag Hindi: विरलता
Croatian flag Croatian: rijetkost Hungarian flag Hungarian: ritkaság Indonesian flag Indonesian: kelangkaan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: það að vera sjaldgæfur Italian flag Italian: rarità Japanese flag Japanese: 珍しいこと
Korean flag Korean: 드묾 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: retumas Latvian flag Latvian: retums
Malay flag Malay: bukan kebiasaan Dutch flag Dutch: zeldzaamheid Norwegian flag Norwegian: sjeldenhet
Polish flag Polish: rzadkość Persian flag Persian: کمیابی Pashto flag Pashto: نرى توپ، لطافت
Portuguese flag Portuguese: raridade Romanian flag Romanian: raritate Russian flag Russian: редкость
Slovak flag Slovak: vzácnosť Slovenian flag Slovenian: redkost Serbian flag Serbian: retkost
Swedish flag Swedish: sällsynthet Thai flag Thai: ความไม่ค่อยมี Turkish flag Turkish: nadirlik, azlık
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 稀有 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: рідкість Urdu flag Urdu: انوکھا پن
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự hiếm Chinese flag Chinese: 希罕,稀有

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