infrequency

Roget category 137

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.3. Recurrent time

#137. Infrequency

noun

infrequency, rareness, rarity — fewness etc. 103 — seldomness^† — uncommonness.

verb

be rare etc. adj..

adjective

unfrequent^†, infrequent — rare, rare as a blue diamond — few etc. 103 — scarce — almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience — not since Adam^†.
scarce as hen's teeth — one in a million — few and far between.

adverb

seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly — not often, not much, infrequently, unfrequently^†, unoften^† — scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever — once in a blue moon.
once — once in a blue moon — once in a million years — once for all, once in a way — pro hac vice [Lat.].

phrase

ein mal kein mal [G.].

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