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noun

Infrequency, Infrequence n.

The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrequence of his visits.

The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion. (R.) "The solitude and infrequency of the place."

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Etymology of 'Infrequency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infrequency" Quotes from Famous Books

... barometer and earthquakes; and between earthquakes and meteors.) At Guayaquil it is said that a heavy shower in the dry season is invariably followed by an earthquake. In Northern Chile, from the extreme infrequency of rain, or even of weather foreboding rain, the probability of accidental coincidences becomes very small; yet the inhabitants are here most firmly convinced of some connexion between the state of the atmosphere and of the trembling ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... it where we were sitting, when our thoughts were with Rosalind in Arden, or with Viola at the Court of Illyria? You used to say, that the gallery was the best place of all for enjoying a play socially—that the relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going—that the company we met there, not being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on, on the stage—because a word lost would have been a chasm, which it was impossible ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

Words linked to "Infrequency" : scarcity, rarity, scarceness, infrequent