Word Meanings - RARITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity of gases. 2. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity. I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows

Additional info about word: RARITY

1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity of gases. 2. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity. I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RARITY)

• Curiosity
• Inquisitiveness
• interest
• wonder
• marvel
• interrogativeness
• rarity
• phenomenon
• celebrity
• oddity
• lion
• Infrequency
• Rarity
• fewness
• paucity
• dearth
• scantiness
• Scarcity
• Deficiency
• lack
• infrequency
• want

Related words: (words related to RARITY)

• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• WONDER
  OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. 1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• INTERESTINGNESS
  The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• SCANTINESS
  Quality condition of being scanty.
• CELEBRITY
  1. Celebration; solemnization. The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon. 2. The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell. 3. A person of
• ODDITY
  1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne. 2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
• WONDERMENT
  Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.
• WONDER-WORKER
  One who performs wonders, or miracles.
• INTEREST
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in
• FEWNESS
  1. The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak. 2. Brevity; conciseness. Shak.
• WONDEROUS
  See WONDROUS
• INQUISITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity,
• MARVELOUSLY
  In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INDEFICIENCY
  The state or quality of not being deficient. Strype.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• INCURIOSITY
  Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• SCARCENESS; SCARCITY
  The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise
• SELF-INTERESTED
  Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.
• DISINTEREST
  Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
• FERRANTI PHENOMENON
  An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called
• BY-INTEREST
  Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.