infrequency

English

Alternative forms

infrequence (dated)

Etymology

Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”).

Noun

infrequency (usually uncountable, plural infrequencies)

The characteristic of being infrequent.
the infrequency of her visits

Synonyms: rarity, irregularity, scarcity; see also Thesaurus:rareness
The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
- 1657, Holland, Philemon, transl., The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch:
  […] it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither

Synonyms

uncommonness; see also Thesaurus:rareness

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