PAUCITY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'positee
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| | Definition: | | [n] an insufficient quantity or number |
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| | Synonyms: | | dearth |
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| | See Also: | | scarceness, scarcity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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