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nounthe state of being few or small in quantity; paucity. Origin of fewnessbefore 900; Middle English fewenesse,Old English fēawnes.See few, -ness Words nearby fewnessfeverwort, few, few and far between, few bricks shy of a load, fewer, fewness, few words, -fex, fexofenadine hydrochloride, fey, Feydeau Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fewnessNow, surely, one of the most remarkable things about the purchasers in this market is just their fewness. Samuel Rutherford|Alexander Whyte Very soon you discover that you were in error about the fewness of the flies. The So-called Human Race|Bert Leston Taylor She had a slow, deep, beautiful voice, and the slowness of her speech was offset by the fewness of her words. The Penalty|Gouverneur Morris "Not many wise," said Paul, and their fewness has left an impress on the history of the church. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire|T. R. Glover
Words related to fewnesssmallness, insufficiency, dearth, paltriness, scantiness, scarceness, rarity, famine, deficiency, absence, shortage, meagerness, poverty, slightness, sparseness, slenderness, sparsity |