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单词 paucity
释义 pau·ci·ty
\ˈpȯsəd.ē, -ətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English paucite, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French paucité, from Latin paucitat-, paucitas, from paucus little + -itat-, -itas -ity — more at few
1. : a small number : fewness
 < the chorus suffered slightly from a paucity of male voices — Douglas Watt >
 < make up in quality for their paucity of numbers — R.B.Morris >
2. : smallness of quantity : dearth, insufficiency, scarcity
 < the simplicity that never was paucity — C.D.Lewis >
 < the paucity of help accorded to me — Rudyard Kipling >
 < a language now almost unknown because of the extreme paucity of its remains — G.B.Saul >
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