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Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry:  paucity
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  an insufficiency; dearth
Etymology:  Latin paucus 'little'

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pau·ci·ty       [paw-si-tee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
2.smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME paucite < L paucitās fewness, deriv. of paucus few; see -ity]
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pau·ci·ty       (pô'sĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Smallness of number; fewness.
  2. Scarcity; dearth: a paucity of natural resources.


[Middle English paucite, from Old French, from Latin paucitās, from paucus, few; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
paucity 
c.1425, from O.Fr. paucité (14c.), from L. paucitatem (nom. paucitas) "fewness, scarcity," from paucus "few, little," from PIE base *pau- "few, little" (cf. L. paullus "little," parvus "little, small," pauper "poor;" O.E. feawe "few," fola "young horse;" O.N. fylja "young female horse").

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paucity

noun
an insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

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