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Definition of paucity in English: paucitynoun ˈpɔːsɪtiˈpɔsədi The presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts. Example sentencesExamples - Will the present paucity of lackadaisical dreamers affect our future cultural heritage?
- The man has an amazing amount of energy which covers for the paucity of his material.
- In ordinary circumstances the paucity of players might have been expected.
- Much of this product is now powerloom woven, due to a paucity of labour.
- I wondered what was more depressing, the paucity of his vocabulary or the absence of musical taste.
- There is at present a paucity of evaluations of disease management programmes.
- The response is governed by the paucity of credible alternatives.
- The paucity of water and the consequent thefts are beginning to weaken the social fabric in the countryside.
- Recently the city has been widely criticised for the paucity of its 60th anniversary plans.
- To those outside the subculture it may appear as if there is a paucity of other alternatives.
- I also would like to apologise for the paucity of posts over the past few days.
- He bemoans the shortage of trained music teachers and a paucity of school music lessons.
- Sorry for the paucity of posts over the past few days but I'm in a state of upheaval known as ‘job change’.
- There is no scheme in all these projects to solve the paucity of clean, safe drinking water.
- The paucity of these qualities in the present Republic would stagger them.
- Instead the search engines are simply reporting the paucity of information on the internet about these people.
- There is also a paucity of texts and supporting popular science literature available in Urdu.
- The paucity of humility shown by the Government in the face of such antipathy is stomach-churning.
- Let me start with an apology for the paucity of blogging lately.
- There's still a paucity of fresh produce in the shops, very little more than a few tired cabbages and exhausted apples to be found.
Synonyms insufficiency, deficiency, scantness, scarcity, scarceness, sparseness, dearth, poverty, shortage, want, lack, undersupply scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, dearth, shortage, rarity, rareness, poverty, insufficiency, deficiency, inadequacy, famine, lack, want, meagreness, limitedness, scantiness, skimpiness, paltriness, restrictedness, deficit, shortfall
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French paucite or Latin paucitas, from paucus 'few'. few from Old English: The ancient root of few is shared by Latin paucus ‘small’, which gives us the English word paucity (Late Middle English). The name the Few for the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 comes from a speech by Winston Churchill in August of that year: ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’
Definition of paucity in US English: paucitynounˈpôsədēˈpɔsədi The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity. Example sentencesExamples - The paucity of water and the consequent thefts are beginning to weaken the social fabric in the countryside.
- The paucity of humility shown by the Government in the face of such antipathy is stomach-churning.
- He bemoans the shortage of trained music teachers and a paucity of school music lessons.
- There is at present a paucity of evaluations of disease management programmes.
- There's still a paucity of fresh produce in the shops, very little more than a few tired cabbages and exhausted apples to be found.
- There is also a paucity of texts and supporting popular science literature available in Urdu.
- Recently the city has been widely criticised for the paucity of its 60th anniversary plans.
- Much of this product is now powerloom woven, due to a paucity of labour.
- I also would like to apologise for the paucity of posts over the past few days.
- I wondered what was more depressing, the paucity of his vocabulary or the absence of musical taste.
- There is no scheme in all these projects to solve the paucity of clean, safe drinking water.
- Instead the search engines are simply reporting the paucity of information on the internet about these people.
- The response is governed by the paucity of credible alternatives.
- The paucity of these qualities in the present Republic would stagger them.
- The man has an amazing amount of energy which covers for the paucity of his material.
- In ordinary circumstances the paucity of players might have been expected.
- Let me start with an apology for the paucity of blogging lately.
- Sorry for the paucity of posts over the past few days but I'm in a state of upheaval known as ‘job change’.
- Will the present paucity of lackadaisical dreamers affect our future cultural heritage?
- To those outside the subculture it may appear as if there is a paucity of other alternatives.
Synonyms insufficiency, deficiency, scantness, scarcity, scarceness, sparseness, dearth, poverty, shortage, want, lack, undersupply scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, dearth, shortage, rarity, rareness, poverty, insufficiency, deficiency, inadequacy, famine, lack, want, meagreness, limitedness, scantiness, skimpiness, paltriness, restrictedness, deficit, shortfall
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French paucite or Latin paucitas, from paucus ‘few’. |