rarity

Preposition: of

• condition: Nevertheless, it gives us an idea of the rarity of the condition.
• disease: This means that due to the rarity of the disease it has not been possible to obtain complete information on this medicinal product.

Converse of object

• become: These plantations are becoming a rarity due to world coffee markets forcing the spread of high tech mass production techniques.
• include: There is a large feeding area which attracts many birds, including some rarities.
• remain: Direct employer support for childcare may remain a rarity.
• contain: Wildwoods have recently taken delivery of yet another shipment of fish containing some real rarities.
• increase: The wooden bodywork has often not survived all that well, increasing the rarity.
• see: On any theater trip we take, we usually try to see some rarity or other.

Adjective modifier

• comparative: In the late 1980s low-emission types were still a comparative rarity in the UK.
• extreme: The £ 1 million mortgage, once an extreme rarity, is becoming more commonplace.
• relative: The showy cornfield annuals are now a relative rarity in the wild due to ' advances ' in crop weed control.
• real: Ironically, a real rarity was a Common Starling!
• genuine: All this makes for a genuine rarity: a biopic that seeks not to sanctify its subject, or excuse his many failings.
• odd: It was a pretty decent show altogether with plenty of variety and the odd rarity thrown in.

Modifies a noun

• value: The bells ' lack of harmony was felt to give them a rarity value which needed preservation.
• committee: I will be sending a description of this bird to the Australian rarities committee.
• today: It does not accept advertising in its pages, a rarity today.
• collection: This, the third release in our rarities collection is a first time on CD re-issue of the 1981 collection Perspectives and Distortion.

Noun used with modifier

• county: Over thirty species of moth have been recorded, one of which is a county rarity, the ' Clay ' .
• island: I also found two island rarities and managed to catch up with all the known vagrants present on the island.