"rareness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: rarenesses [plural]
Etymology: rare + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|rare|ness}} rare + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rareness (countable and uncountable, plural rarenesses)
  1. The property of being rare; rarity Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: rarity, infrequency, rareness, seldomness, scarcity, uncommonness Hypernyms: strangeness Related terms: rare [adjective], occasionally [adverb], fewness [of being few in number] [state], lack Translations (property of being rare): vzácnost [feminine] (Czech), Rarität [feminine] (German), σπανιότητα (spaniótita) [feminine] (Greek), ritkaság (Hungarian), annamhacht [feminine] (Irish), sjeldenhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sjeldanheit [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), raritate (Romanian), рије́тко̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), rijétkōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-rareness-en-noun-zJT41qfj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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