rarity — OET · Shobdo

rarity

noun

1 the rarity of earthquakes there has lulled people into a false sense of security:

infrequency, rareness, unusualness, uncommonness, singularity, uniqueness;

scarcity, scarceness, sparseness.

2 steam locomotives are now becoming something of a rarity:

collector's item, rare person/thing, rare bird, marvel, wonder, nonpareil, one of a kind, find, conversation piece;

curiosity, oddity, anomaly, freak;

outlier, edge case;

Latin rara avis;

British, informal one-off, oner.

rarity Oxford Dictionary of English