infrequencyn.
/ɪnˈfriːkwənsi/ The state of being infrequent.† 1. The fact or condition of being unfrequented; uncrowded state or condition; also, Small attendance; paucity, fewness. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun]
fewnesseOE
paucityc1425
thinnessc1440
exility1528
smallness1544
rareness1562
infrequency1600
exiguity1604
uninfiniteness1656
scarceness1672
exiguousness1727
spareness1822
sparseness1833
sparsity1865
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > unfrequented place > unfrequentedness
solitariness1560
solitude1585
infrequency1600
unfrequency1611
unhauntedness1611
untroddenness1644
unfrequentedness1651
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxix. xviii. 1034 By occasion of the same infrequencie [L. eadem solitudo] (for that they whose names were presented, neither made answere nor could be found).
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1326 It was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither, rather than the dragon that caused the said desert solitarinesse.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 61 Answerable to his small dependancie, and infrequencie of suters.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 161 The infrequency..of that brave bold Legion, whose bands and troups were not full as then, by reason of absences by leave.
2. The fact or condition of being of infrequent occurrence or of recurring at wide intervals; uncommonness, rarity.
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the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [noun]
rarenessa1530
rarity1542
seldomness1561
unfrequency1611
infrequence1644
infrequency1677
low frequency1899
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 4 The infrequency of the thing (they never happening but at or near the Moons full).
1718 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 369 The accounts..of the infrequency of public baptism among us.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 338 The infrequency of marriage, and the ruin of agriculture, affected the principles of population.
1823 C. Lamb Old China in Elia 2nd Ser. The relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going.
1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 167 The infrequency of gangrene is shown by its having occurred in but one of 133 cases.
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