Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

infrequency en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”), equivalent to in- + frequency or infrequent + -cy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The characteristic of being infrequent.
    • the infrequency of her visits
    • Because of the infrequency of the services, signals are not considered necessary, but stations are linked by telephone. 1957 December 14, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
  2. (uncountable, usually) The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
    • […]it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither 1657, Philemon, transl. Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
infrequencies Number=Plur lexicographic
infrequence alternative, dated lexicographic

Synonyms

scarcity · irregularity · rarity · rarity · seldomness · uncommonness · infrequency · scarcity · uncommonness · rareness