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Fewness in number; too few.countableuncountable
- But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
- For sheer paucity of railway facilities, probably the record in Great Britain is held by the Scottish county of Nairn, which has about eight miles of railway and two stations—Nairn and Auldearn.
- 2
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.countableuncountable
- Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
- Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.
syn. scantiness · scarcity