different between dearth vs rareness
dearth
English
Etymology
First attested at least as early as the late 1300s, and appearing in Tyndale’s Pentateuch (1530) as well as the Coverdale Bible (1535). From Middle English derth, derthe, derþe, probably from Old English *d?erþ, *d?erþu, from Proto-West Germanic *diuriþu, from Proto-Germanic *diuriþ? (“costliness, preciousness, honour”); corresponding to dear +? -th. Cognate with Old Saxon diuriða (“glory, honour; preciousness”), West Frisian djoerte (“love, dearness, value, worth”), Dutch duurte (“dearness; scarcity, dearth”), Icelandic dýrð (“honour, glory”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d???/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??/, enPR: dûrth
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Noun
dearth (countable and uncountable, plural dearths)
- A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
- (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXV:
- Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXV:
- (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
Synonyms
- (period when food is rare): famine, shortage
- (scarcity): lack, paucity, scarcity
Translations
Further reading
- dearth at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dehart, dareth, hatred, hetdar, thread
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rareness
English
Etymology
rare +? -ness
Noun
rareness (countable and uncountable, plural rarenesses)
- The property of being rare; rarity
Synonyms
- rarity; see also Thesaurus:rareness
Translations
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