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rarity
rarity
noun
Definition of RARITY
1
something strange or unusual that is an object of interest <an American visitor in that remote Chinese village is a rarity>
Related Words found object, objet trouvé; curiosa, ephemera, virtu (or vertu); marvel, prodigy, rara avis, rare bird, wonder; abnormality, anomaly, freak, monster, monstrosity; malformation, mutant, mutation
2
something that is different from what is ordinary or expected <a meal accompanied by wine is a rarity in this house>
Related Words curiosity, peculiarity, singularity; accident, bizarrerie, phenomenon, quirk, vagary; distortion, kink, mutation, variation; difference, disparity, inconsistence, inconsistency; error, mistake; contradiction, paradox
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