Noun
The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFamiliarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. Apuleius
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. Hannah Arendt
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart. Peter Medawar
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth, and Mary Ellen was proof that even in the Appalachian woods I would not be spared. It became evident from the first moment that she was a rarity. Bill Bryson
Edward holds up a hand for silence. "If you please, Captain: he's thinking. Let us savor the exquisite rarity of the moment.”. Kage Baker
A work is imaginative in virtue of the power of its images over our emotions; not in virtue of any rarity or surprisingness in the images themselves. George Henry Lewes