paucity

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

From Middle French paucité, from Old French, from Latin paucitās ("a small number, fewness, scarcity"), from paucus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-, *ph₁w- (English few).

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