Hypertext Webster Gateway: "paucity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Paucity \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
paucity
n : an insufficient quantity or number [syn: {dearth}]
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