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rarity (n.)
early 15c., "thinness;" 1550s, "fewness," from Middle French
rarité
or directly from Latin
raritas
"thinness, looseness of texture; fewness," from
rarus
(see
rare
(adj.1)). Sense of "a rare thing or event" is from 1590s.
