Uncommonness

  • 81uncommon — /ʌnˈkɒmən/ (say un komuhn) adjective 1. not common; unusual or rare. 2. unusual in amount or degree; above the ordinary. 3. exceptional. –adverb 4. very; remarkably. –uncommonness, noun …

  • 82abnormality — [n] being different from standard or norm aberrancy, aberration, anomalism, anomaly, atypicalness, bizarreness, deformity, deviance, deviancy, deviation, eccentricity, exception, extraordinariness, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity,… …

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  • 83dearth — [n] insufficiency, scarcity absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings*, sparsity,… …

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  • 84frequency — [n] commonness, repetitiveness abundance, beat, constancy, density, frequentness, iteration, number, oscillation, periodicity, persistence, prevalence, pulsation, recurrence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm; concept 634 Ant.… …

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  • 85rarity — [rer′ə tē] n. [L raritas] 1. the quality or condition of being rare; specif., a) uncommonness; scarcity b) excellence c) lack of density; thinness 2. pl. rarities something remarkable or valuable because rare …

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  • 86scarcity — [sker′sə tē] n. pl. scarcities [ME scarsite < NormFr escarseté] 1. the condition or quality of being scarce; inadequate supply; dearth 2. rarity; uncommonness …

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  • 87uncommon — [un käm′ən] adj. 1. rare; not common or usual 2. strange; remarkable; extraordinary uncommonly adv. uncommonness n …

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  • 88commonness — noun 1. the state of being that is commonly observed • Syn: ↑expectedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑expected (for: ↑expectedness), ↑common • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 89commonplaceness — noun ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace • Syn: ↑commonness, ↑everydayness • Ant: ↑uncommonness (for: ↑commonness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 90everydayness — noun ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace • Syn: ↑commonness, ↑commonplaceness • Ant: ↑uncommonness (for: ↑commonness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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