Category:Paucity

Pau"ci*ty, n. Etym: [l. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. Paucité 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.