infrequency
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”).
Noun[edit]
infrequency (usually uncountable, plural infrequencies)
- The characteristic of being infrequent.
- Synonyms: rarity, irregularity, scarcity; see also Thesaurus:rareness
- the infrequency of her visits
- The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
- 1657, Philemon, transl. Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch:
- […] it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither
Synonyms[edit]
- uncommonness; see also Thesaurus:rareness