Paucity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Paucity \Pau"ci*ty\ (p[add]"s[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. paucitas, fr.
     paucus few, little: cf. F. paucit['e] See {Few}.]
     1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity. --Hooker.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the


              paucity, and the incompleteness, of its
              communications.                       --I. Taylor.
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     2. Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as,
        paucity of blood. --Sir T. Browne.
        [1913 Webster] Paugie

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  paucity
       n : an insufficient quantity or number [syn: {dearth}]

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