 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
paucity
noun: an insufficient quantity or number [syn: {dearth}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Paucity \Pau"ci*ty\, noun [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little:
cf. F. paucit['e] See {Few}.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. --Hooker.
Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the
paucity, and the incompleteness, of its
communications. --I. Taylor.
2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity
of blood. --Sir T. Browne.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "paucity":
chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, exiguity, fewness, infrequency,
insufficiency, meagerness, miserliness, niggardliness, poverty,
rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant, scant sufficiency,
scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, scrimpiness, skimpiness,
smallness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness,
tightness, uncommonness
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