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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something rare.
  2. n. The quality or state of being rare; infrequency of occurrence.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The condition of being rare, or not dense, or of occupying, as a corporeal substance, much space with little matter; thinness; tenuity: opposed to density: as, the rarity of a gas.
  2. n. The state of being uncommon or of infrequent occurrence; uncommonness; infrequency.
  3. n. Something that is rare or uncommon; a thing valued for its scarcity or for its unusual excellence.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A rare object.
  2. n. A measure of the scarcity of an object.
  3. n. Thinness; the property of having low density

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness.
  2. n. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. noteworthy scarcity
  2. n. something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
  3. n. a rarified quality

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