About The Word Paucity
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Paucity
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What's The Definition Of Paucity?
[n] an insufficient quantity or number
Synonyms | Synonyms for Paucity: dearth Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | scarceness | scarcity Paucity In Webster's Dictionary \Pau"ci*ty\, n. [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.
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