PAUCITY


Meaning of PAUCITY in English

/paw"si tee/ , n.

1. smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.

2. smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.

[ 1375-1425; late ME paucite paucitas fewness, deriv. of paucus few; see -ITY ]

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