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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

... must have been very exceptional, or the remark much overstated, as I had met dissenting clergymen in all circles of society. He admitted that there might be a good deal of bigotry in this respect, but added that the infrequency of association was more the result of those circumstances which would naturally draw the two parties to themselves, than to superciliousness on the side of the establishment, adding that where a court and aristocracy were in the established church, there would necessarily be a pressure of fashion ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... struck me as on the whole less prompt and accurate than that of Great Britain. The comparative infrequency of fully equipped post-offices is certainly an inconvenience. There are letter-boxes enough, and the commonest stamps may be procured in every drug-store (and of these there is no lack!) or even from the postmen; but to have a parcel weighed, to register a letter, to procure ...

— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

Words linked to "Infrequency" : rarity, scarcity