Definitions for rarities

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rarities rar·i·ty

Spelling: [rair-i-tee]

IPA: /ˈrɛər ɪ ti/

Rarities is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in rarities (aeiirrst).

Definitions for rarities

noun

1. something rare, unusual, or uncommon:
2. something esteemed or interesting in being rare, uncommon, or curious:
3. the state or quality of being rare.
4. rare occurrence; infrequency:
5. unusual excellence.
6. thinness, as of air or a gas.

Origin of rarities

1550-60; Latin rāritās thinness, equivalent to rār(us) rare¹ + -itās -ity

Examples for rarities

And the really handsome man is the most extraordinary of the rarities.

Travellers, especially the English, are rarities at this season.

He was not greedy of money, except choice pieces of gold or rarities.

So much for John's three daughters, which you will say were rarities to be fond of.

At that time there was no office, while letters were rarities.

One of these rarities (C. vagabundus) is found in the nests of puffins and other sea-birds.

We thus meet with them in collections of other rarities and works of art.

But those who heaped abuse were the rarities, the people my friends and I laughed at.

George H.W. Bush was that rarest of rarities: a genuinely modest man in the office of the presidency.

Illustrated books of the early centuries are the greatest of rarities.