Seldomness

Seldomness
Seldomness Sel"dom*ness, n. Rareness. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]

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  • seldomness — See seldom. * * * …   Universalium

  • seldomness — n. rareness, infrequency …   English contemporary dictionary

  • seldomness — sel·dom·ness …   English syllables

  • seldomness — noun ( es) : infrequency, rareness …   Useful english dictionary

  • seldom — seldomness, n. /sel deuhm/, adv. 1. on only a few occasions; rarely; infrequently; not often: We seldom see our old neighbors anymore. adj. 2. rare; infrequent. [bef. 900; ME; OE seldum, var. of seldan; c. G selten, Goth silda ] * * * …   Universalium

  • Infrequency — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Infrequency >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 infrequency infrequency rareness rarity Sgm: N 1 fewness fewness &c. 103 Sgm: N 1 seldomness seldomness Sgm: N 1 uncommonness uncommonness PARAG:Infrequency >V …   English dictionary for students

  • rarity — Synonyms and related words: abnormality, airiness, airy texture, amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing, astonishment, attenuation, chinchiness, chintziness, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, dearth, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • scarcity — Synonyms and related words: absence, chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, deficiency, exiguity, fewness, inadequacy, inadequateness, infrequence, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, miserliness, need, niggardliness, occasionalness, paucity …   Moby Thesaurus

  • slowness — Synonyms and related words: Fabian policy, Micawberism, acedia, afterthought, amble, antipathy, apathy, aridity, asininity, averseness, aversion, backwardness, barrenness, bind, block, blockage, blockishness, bloodlessness, boobishness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • sparsity — Synonyms and related words: chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, exiguity, fewness, infrequence, infrequency, meagerness, miserliness, niggardliness, occasionalness, paucity, poverty, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant sufficiency, scantiness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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