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Definition paucity

Etymology

From Middle French paucité, from Old French, from Latin paucitas (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?w-, *ph?w- (“few, small”) (English few).

Noun

paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)

1. Fewness in number; too few.
2. A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.