infrequency
nounEtymology From Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”), equivalent to in- + frequency or infrequent + -cy.
1
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 23, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
2
Usually The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
- […]it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither1657, Philemon, transl. Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch:
- Synonyms
- uncommonness