paucity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɒs.ɪ.ti/    美 /ˈpɔs.ɪ.ti/|[ˈpɔs.ɪ.ɾi]|/ˈpɔs.ɪ.ti/|[ˈpɔs.ɪ.ɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fewness in number; too few. countable,uncountable
    — But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
  2. A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

paucities plural

词汇关系

近义词
scantiness scarcity

词源

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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