infrequency
English
Alternative forms
- infrequence (dated)
Etymology
Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”).
Noun
infrequency (usually uncountable, plural infrequencies)
- The characteristic of being infrequent.
- the infrequency of her visits
- Synonyms: rarity, irregularity, scarcity; see also Thesaurus:rareness
- The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
- 1657, Holland, Philemon, transl., 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
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Synonyms
- uncommonness; see also Thesaurus:rareness