paucity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
paucity
    n 1: an insufficient quantity or number [syn: {dearth},
         {paucity}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as,
      paucity of blood. --Sir T. Browne.
      [1913 Webster] Paugie
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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