infrequency

English

Etymology

Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”).

Noun

infrequency (usually uncountable, plural infrequencies)

  1. The characteristic of being infrequent.
    the infrequency of her visits
    Synonyms: rarity, irregularity, scarcity
  2. The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
    • 1657, Philemon Holland translating Plutarch, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals
      […] it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither
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