Paucity

Noun

 * 1) Fewness in number; a small number.
 * 2) * 1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7:
 * But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
 * 1) * 2006, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, "Uncle Sam Wants You," Time, 13 July:
 * Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.
 * 1) Smallness in size or amount; meagerness.
 * 2) * 1898, Mark Twain, "At the Appetite-Cure":
 * Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
 * 1) * 1915, Gene Stratton-Porter, Michael O'Halloran, ch. 12:
 * Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.

Synonyms

 * dearth, scantiness, scarcity

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From paucitas: < paucus:.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:, недостиг


 * Portuguese: penúria
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian: оскудност