RARENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rareness mean? 

• RARENESS (noun)
  The noun RARENESS has 1 sense:

1. noteworthy scarcity

  Familiarity information: RARENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RARENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Noteworthy scarcity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

infrequency; rareness; rarity

Hypernyms ("rareness" is a kind of...):

scarceness; scarcity (a small and inadequate amount)

Derivation:

rare (not widely distributed)

rare (recurring only at long intervals)

 Context examples 

This letter interested me deeply, because the chief difficulty in the study of catalepsy is the rareness of the disease.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)