paucity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an insufficient quantity or number
    dearth.

WordNet

Pau"ci*ty noun
Etymology
L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucité See Few.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913