PAUCITY

dearth, paucity

(noun) an insufficient quantity or number

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)

Fewness in number; too few.

A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.

Synonyms

• (fewness in number): See fewness

• (smallness in size or amount): dearth, scantiness, scarcity; see also lack

Source: Wiktionary

Pau"ci*ty, n. Etym: [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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