Uncommonness

  • 61abnormality — noun 1) born with a heart abnormality Syn: malformation, deformity, irregularity, flaw, defect, anomaly 2) the abnormality of such behavior Syn: unusualness, uncommonness, atypicality, irregularity, anomalousness …

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  • 62rarity — noun 1) the rarity of earthquakes in Vermont Syn: infrequency, rareness, scarcity, unusualness, uncommonness 2) this book is a rarity Syn: collector s item, rare thing, rare bird, rara avis; wonder, nonpareil …

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  • 63choice — n Choice, option, alternative, preference, selection, election are comparable when they mean the act or opportunity of choosing or the thing chosen. Choice usually implies the right or the privilege to choose freely from a number (as of persons,… …

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  • 64dearth — *lack, want, absence, defect, privation Analogous words: scarcity, infrequency, rareness, uncommonness (see corresponding adjectives at INFREQUENT): scantiness, meagerness, scantness (see corresponding adjectives at MEAGER) Antonyms: excess …

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  • 65abnormality — n 1. anomaly, aberration, perversion; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, rarity; monster, monstrosity, mutant, freak, heteroclite, malformation, miscreation, abortion, deformity. 2. deviation, aberrance, aberrancy, irregularity, variation, abnormity …

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  • 66anomaly — n 1. deviation, aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, divergence, digression, departure, divagation, divarication, Rare. anomalism; abnormality, abnormity, irregularity, variation. 2. nonconformist, deviate, deviant, deviator, radical, heretic,… …

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  • 67deviation — n 1. veer, veering, curve, curving, turn, turning, swerve, swerving, bend, bending; tacking, wheeling, wheeling about, swinging about; shift, shifting, switch, switching, shunting, straying, drifting, roving, divagating; digression, digressing,… …

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  • 68distinctness — n 1. separatenesss, discreteness, individuality, unconnectedness; difference, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, unlikeness, disparateness. 2. clearness, vividness, graphicness, manifestness, obviousness, plainness; certainness, lucidity, pointedness …

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  • 69eccentricity — n 1. oddity, curiosity, rarity; irregularity, incongruity, variation, abnormality, discrepancy, difference, variance, dissimilitude, disparity, inconsistency; exception, singularity, particularity; idiosyncrasy, idiocrasy, mannerism, quirk, twist …

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  • 70infrequency — n rarity, rareness, seldomness, unwontedness, infrequence; uncommonness, unusualness, exceptionality; irregularity, intermittence, occa sionalness, occasionality, sporadicity. 2. fewness, scarcity, scarceness, scantness, scantiness, meagerness,… …

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