| Main Entry: | infrequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rarity |
Synonyms: |
irregularity, scarcity, uncommonness, unpredictability |
| Concept: | Infrequency. |
| Category: | 3. RECURRENT TIME |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness; seldomness; uncommonness.
-verbs
be rare.
-adjectives
unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience.
-adverbs
seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently, unoften; scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever; once in a blue moon., once; once for all, in a way; pro hac vice.
-phrases
ein mal kein mal.
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Antonyms: |
frequency |
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| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
Synonyms: |
absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, excess, plentifulness, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | scarcity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency |
Synonyms: |
dearth, drought, exiguity, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, paucity, rareness, rarity, scantiness, shortage, sparsity, stringency, uncommonness, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, commonness, excess, surplus |