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  • 11rarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sparseness Nouns 1. rarity, tenuity, subtlety, thinness, lightness, compressibility; rarefaction, attenuation, dilatation, inflation. See vapor. 2. rareness, scarcity, uncommonness, infrequency,… …

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  • 12Infrequency — (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 …

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  • 13unusualness — noun uncommonness by virtue of being unusual • Ant: ↑usualness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unusual • Hypernyms: ↑uncommonness • Hyponyms: ↑unfamiliarity, ↑ …

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  • 14Infrequence — In*fre quence, Infrequency In*fre quen*cy, n. [L. infrequentia scantiness : cf. F. infrequence.] 1. The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrequence of his visits. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of not being frequented;… …

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  • 15Infrequency — Infrequence In*fre quence, Infrequency In*fre quen*cy, n. [L. infrequentia scantiness : cf. F. infrequence.] 1. The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrequence of his visits. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of not being… …

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  • 16atopy — noun Etymology: Greek atopia uncommonness, from atopos out of the way, uncommon, from a + topos place Date: 1923 a probably hereditary allergy characterized by symptoms (as asthma, hay fever, or hives) produced upon exposure especially by… …

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  • 17uncommon — adjective Date: circa 1576 1. not ordinarily encountered ; unusual < an uncommon plant > 2. remarkable, exceptional < a soldier of uncommon courage > Synonyms: see infrequent • uncommonly adverb • …

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  • 18Martin Van Buren Bates — Bates in uniform next to a man of average height Martin Van Buren Bates (November 9, 1837 – January 7, 1919), known as the Kentucky Giant among other nicknames, was a Civil War era American famed for his incredibly large size. Though born an&#8230; …

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  • 19James Ossuary — The James ossuary was on display at the Royal Ontario Museum from November 15, 2002 to January 5, 2003. The James Ossuary is a 2,000 year old chalk box that was used for containing the bones of the dead. The Aramaic inscription: Ya akov bar Yosef …

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  • 20Sublime (philosophy) — In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis ( [looking up from] under the lintel, high, lofty, elevated, exalted) is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or&#8230; …

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