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rarity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of rarity

1 something strange or unusual that is an object of interest

an American visitor in that remote Chinese village is a rarity

Synonyms of rarity

curio, curiosity, exotic, objet d'art (also objet), oddity, oddment

Words Related to rarity

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

Synonyms of rarity

aberration, abnormality, anomaly, exception, oddity, oddment

Words Related to rarity

curiosity, peculiarity, singularity

accident, bizarrerie, phenomenon, quirk, vagary

distortion, kink, mutation, variation

difference, disparity, inconsistence, inconsistency

contradiction, paradox

Near Antonyms of rarity

norm, ordinary, usual

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