Found 2 items, similar to paucity.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: paucity
paucity
n : an insufficient quantity or number [syn:
dearth]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Paucity
Paucity
\Pau"ci*ty\, n. [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little:
cf. F. paucit['e] See
Few.]
1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. --Hooker.
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Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the
paucity, and the incompleteness, of its
communications. --I. Taylor.
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2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity
of blood. --Sir T. Browne.
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