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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAR'ITY, n. [L. raritas.]
1. Uncommonness; infrequency.
Far from being fond of a flower for its rarity -
2. A thing valued for its scarcity.
I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place.
3. Thinness; tenuity; opposed to density; as the rarity of air.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness, infrequency]
2: a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: rarity, tenuity, low density]
3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1542 1. the quality, state, or fact of being rare 2. one that is rare

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 rareness. 2 an uncommon thing, esp. one valued for being rare. Etymology: F rareté or L raritas (as RARE(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rarity Rar"i*ty, n.; pl. Rarities. [L. raritas: cf. F. raret['e]. See Rare.] 1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rarities) 1. If someone or something is a rarity, they are interesting or valuable because they are so unusual. (JOURNALISM) Sontag has always been that rarity, a glamorous intellectual... N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N in/among n 2. The rarity of something is the fact that it is very uncommon. It was a real prize due to its rarity and good condition... N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Thinness, tenuity, rareness. 2. Uncommonness, infrequency, scarcity. 3. Uncommon thing, scarce thing.

Moby Thesaurus

abnormality, airiness, airy texture, amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing, astonishment, attenuation, chinchiness, chintziness, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, dearth, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, ethereality, exception, exceptionality, exiguity, exility, extraordinariness, fabulousness, fewness, find, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness, gazingstock, gossameriness, gracility, impossibility, improbability, inconceivability, incredibility, increditability, infrequence, infrequency, insubstantiality, laciness, lightness, marvel, marvelment, marvelousness, meagerness, miracle, miserliness, mistiness, museum piece, mythicalness, niggardliness, nonesuch, occasionalness, oddity, paperiness, paucity, phenomenon, poverty, prodigiosity, prodigiousness, prodigy, quite a thing, rareness, remarkableness, restrictedness, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seldomness, sensation, sight, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, slowness, smallness, something else, sparseness, sparsity, spectacle, stinginess, strange thing, stringency, stunner, stupendousness, subtility, tenuity, thinness, tightness, treasure, uncommonness, unfrequentness, uniqueness, unordinariness, unusualness, unwontedness, vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment