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paucities

paucities is the plural of paucity.

Meaning of paucity

Noun

paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)

  1. Fewness in number; too few.
    • But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7
    Synonyms:
    fewness
  2. A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
    • It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133
    Synonyms:
    dearth

Questions about paucities

What is paucities the plural of?
Paucities is the plural of paucity.

Words near paucities in the dictionary

  1. paucispecific
  2. paucispicular
  3. paucispiral
  4. paucistratified
  5. paucisymptomatic
  6. paucities
  7. paucituberculatan
  8. paucituberculatans
  9. paucituberculate
  10. paucity
  11. paucivalency

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