Word of the Day:
paucity
What It Means
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
Paucity in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English paucete, paucite, paucyte, partly from Middle French paucité and partly from its etymon, Latin paucitās (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”). Related to few.
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