What is the general scale for rarity adjectives? On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being 'abundant' and 10 being 'extremely scarce', what adjectives could be used to describe the areas in between? For example, what would a two be?
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2I doubt any pair of users here could agree on a single "unambiguously-correct" list of such terms. It's all a matter of opinion. – FumbleFingers Apr 14 '17 at 20:23
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I don't think it's impossible in principle to give an evidence-based (rather than opinion-based) answer to this question. Compare What is worse than “mediocre”? – herisson Apr 14 '17 at 23:22
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As has been said in a comment, no two users will place these adjectives exactly in the same position. Then again, their positions can't be very different from this:
- omnipresent
- abundant
- frequent
- common
- occasional
- uncommon
- sporadic
- rare
- unique
- nonexistent
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2I might add unique or singular or similar in there between 9 and 10, and if 10 is "nonexistent" then maybe 1 (or 0?) should be something like ubiquitous or pervasive or omnipresent? (I would tell you +1, but this seems to be +2.) – 1006a Apr 14 '17 at 21:10
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#10 can't be "non-existent" - how can you classify something that doesn't exist? – TrevorD Apr 14 '17 at 23:28