Crossword clues for rarity
rarity
- Snow in Tampa, e.g
- It occurs once in a blue moon
- It hardly ever happens
- Hen's tooth, e.g
- Albino, for one
- White tiger, e.g
- Very uncommon event
- Thing that's seldom seen
- Something you don't see everyday
- Something very unusual
- Seldom-seen thing
- Poe's autograph, e.g
- One-in-a-million thing
- Once-in-a-blue-moon event
- It's unlikely
- It's not seen that often
- It happens once in a blue moon
- Infrequently seen thing
- Hole-in-one, for one
- Hole-in-one, e.g
- Highly unusual occurrence
- Good used car, e.g
- Factor for a collector
- Event associated with a blue moon
- Diamond value factor
- Blue moon
- Blue moon, for instance
- Appraiser's concern
- Antiquarian's find
- A parking place, for instance
- A one-in-a-million thing
- 78 speed records, e.g
- Hen's tooth, e.g.
- Thinness
- Collectible, maybe
- Curio
- Blue moon, e.g.
- Hole-in-one, e.g.
- Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- Noteworthy scarcity
- A rarified quality
- Snow in Tampa, e.g.
- Snow in Miami
- Unusual find
- Collector's item
- Something unusual I try to change under artist
- Something uncommon
- Some illumination around endless religious service? It's not often seen
- It's unusual for the Queen's Trust to exclude the Church
- In the light, dealer's ultimate object of quest!
- Try air shot: you don’t often see that!
- One for the books
- Uncommon thing
- Unusual thing
- Uncommon occurrence
- One for the record books
- Blue moon, e.g
- Uncommon event
- Uncommon item
- It doesn't happen often
- Hole in one, e.g
- Hard-to-find album
- Unusual occurrence
- Something unusual
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rarity \Rar"i*ty\ (r[a^]r"[i^]*t[y^]; 277), n.; pl. Rarities (r[a^]r"[i^]*t[i^]z). [L. raritas: cf. F. raret['e]. See Rare.]
The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
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That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "thinness;" 1550s, "fewness," from Middle French rarité or directly from Latin raritas "thinness, looseness of texture; fewness," from rarus (see rare (adj.1)). Sense of "a rare thing or event" is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A measure of the scarcity of an object. 2 (context chemistry of a gas English) Thinness; the property of having low density 3 (senseid en rare object)A rare object.
WordNet
n. noteworthy scarcity [syn: rareness, infrequency]
a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: tenuity, low density]
something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity]
Wikipedia
Rarity may refer to:
Rarity is a Canadian post-hardcore band from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, formed in 2014. The band consists of lead vocalist Loeden Learn, guitarists Adam Clarke and Zachary Pasquale, and drummer Evan Woods. They signed with Rise Records and released their debut EP, Alive In Your Eyes in 2015. The band released their debut studio album, I Couldn't Be Weaker, in April 2016. The group has toured with multiple musical groups such as Silverstein, Vanna, Being As An Ocean, Emarosa, Coldrain, Cardinals Pride and Youth Decay.
Usage examples of "rarity".
Sianadh had hired a carriage and driver, which contraption was ogled by the neighbors when it stopped at the door, carriages being a rarity in Bergamot Street.
When Dana Gaynor, copartner of Rarities Unlimited, started in on him with a voice like an ice-tipped whip, he stood up straight and paid attention.
The rarity of eidetic memory, coupled with the fact that to possess such a capacity does not seem to make for much success in life, suggests that it may not be so beneficial a gift.
It is useless to deny the rarity and worth of the skill that can report so perfectly and with such exquisite humor all the fugacious and manifold emotions of the modern maiden and her lover.
On the contrary, were the generous friend or disinterested patriot to stand alone in the practice of beneficence, this would rather inhance his value in our eyes, and join the praise of rarity and novelty to his other more exalted merits.
Horton and Jols began filling the glasses as the knights eyed this rarity with enormous anticipation.
Quite pleased, Glencoe left Mance to his task and devoted his own efforts to displaying musical rarities.
The Grand Inquisitor was utterly overwhelmed by his volume of Pasquinades, a work so witty that it was constantly attributed to Erasmus, and so carefully destroyed that Heinsius gave a hundred gold pieces for the copy which Count Hohendorf afterwards placed among the imperial rarities at Vienna.
But Rafik had said Hafiz was a collector of rarities and had implied that he was not overburdened with scruples.
For two hours we fished unceasingly, but without bringing up any rarities.
Kashmir, Miss Mandeville, zough not, I am desolate to say, of great rarity.
From the other table advances Tommy Molto, the Homicide supervisor, who has elected to try this case, a rarity for him these 68 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS days.
Relkin and Mono were orphans, Manuel was not, a real rarity in the Dragon Corps.
The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.
It was a rarity that the defense would not object to prosecutorial foot dragging.