infrequency

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin infrequentia (“scantiness”).

Noun

infrequency (usually uncountable, plural infrequencies)

1. The characteristic of being infrequent.

   the infrequency of her visits

   Synonyms: rarity, irregularity, scarcity

2. The state of being unfrequented; isolation; seclusion.
   • 1657, Philemon Holland translating Plutarch, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals

     […] it was the solitude and infrequency of the place that brought the dragon thither