'Paucity' definitions:
Definition of 'paucity'
(from WordNet)
noun
An insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity]
Definition of 'Paucity'
From: GCIDE
- 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