rarity
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | a rare person or thing, esp something interesting or valued because it is uncommon |
| 2. | the state or quality of being rare |
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Example sentences
The characters in it almost wholly talk with that cleverness which is a delight to read in books and a rarity to hear in life.
The rarity of their illness is matched by a scarcity of drugs to treat it.
As psychiatric diagnoses are typically defined by statistical rarity, this could be problematic.
He was that rarity, which you see a lot in fiction but rarely in real life-a sleeper agent.
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