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paucity
/ˈpɔs.ɪ.ti/
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What does paucity mean?
noun
- Fewness in number; too few.
- A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
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And as obvious becomes one's paucity of expression, one's week-kneed imagination, one's imperfect assimilation of the spirit of the story.
I will now give a sketch of the natural history of these islands, which, from its very paucity, possesses a peculiar interest.
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And the paucity of miracles wherever we have contemporary records, as in the case of primitive Islamism, is a most significant fact.
It approaches nearer to handicraft, in the paucity and rudeness of its mechanical appliances, and there is more of the element of mastery and subservience.
I am inclined to attribute the singular paucity of distinguished political characters to the ever-increasing activity of the despotism of the majority in the United States.