paucity
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin paucitas (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
paucity (countable and uncountable; plural paucities)
- Fewness in number; too few.
- 1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7:
- But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
- 2006, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, "Uncle Sam Wants You," Time, 13 July:
- Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.
- 1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7:
- A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
- 1898, Mark Twain, "At the Appetite-Cure":
- Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
- 1915, Gene Stratton-Porter, Michael O'Halloran, ch. 12:
- Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.
- 1898, Mark Twain, "At the Appetite-Cure":
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
fewness in number; a small number
smallness in size or amount
External links [edit]
- paucity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- paucity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- paucity at OneLook Dictionary Search
