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paucity 音标拼音: [p'ɔsəti] n. 少数,少量,缺乏 少数,少量,缺乏 paucity n 1: an insufficient quantity or number [ synonym: { dearth}, { paucity}] Paucity \ Pau" ci* ty\ ( p[ add]" s[ i^]* t[ y^]), n. [ L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucit[' e] See { Few}.] 1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity. -- Hooker. [ 1913 Webster] Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] Paugie29 Moby Thesaurus words for " paucity": chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, exiguity, fewness, infrequency, insufficiency, meagerness, miserliness, niggardliness, poverty, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, scrimpiness, skimpiness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness, tightness, uncommonness
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