"paucity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɒs.ɪ.ti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɔs.ɪ.ti/ [General-American], [ˈpɔs.ɪ.ɾi] [General-American], /ˈpɑ.sɪ.ti/ [Canada, cot-caught-merger], [ˈpɑ.sɪ.ɾi] [Canada, cot-caught-merger], /ˈpɔs.ɪ.ti/ [General-Australian], [ˈpɔs.ɪ.ɾi] [General-Australian] Audio: En-us-paucity.oga [US] Forms: paucities [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French paucité, apparently borrowed in the mid 14th century from Latin paucitās (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”). Doublet of few. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₂w-}}, {{dercat|en|itc-pro|ine-pro}}, {{der|en|frm|paucité}} Middle French paucité, {{der|en|la|paucitās||a small number, fewness, scarcity}} Latin paucitās (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), {{m|la|paucus||few, little}} paucus (“few, little”), {{doublet|en|few}} Doublet of few Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)
  1. Fewness in number; too few. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (fewness in number): fewness Translations (fewness in number; a small number): малобройност (malobrojnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), оскъдност (oskǎdnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), کەمی (kemî) (Central Kurdish), 少量 (shǎoliàng) (Chinese Mandarin), nedostatek [masculine] (Czech), gering aantal [neuter] (Dutch), niukkuus (Finnish), paucité [feminine] (French), Mangel [masculine] (German), ελαχιστότητα (elachistótita) [feminine] (Greek), σπανιότητα (spaniótita) [feminine] (Greek), laghad [masculine] (Irish), paucitās [feminine] (Latin), недо́статок (nedóstatok) [masculine] (Macedonian), не́достиг (nédostig) [masculine] (Macedonian), ngōuruuru (Maori), niedostatek [masculine] (Polish), penúria [feminine] (Portuguese), недоста́точность (nedostátočnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), нехва́тка (nexvátka) [feminine] (Russian), малочи́сленность (maločíslennostʹ) (english: fewness) [feminine] (Russian), nedostatok (Slovak), penuria [feminine] (Spanish), escasez [feminine] (Spanish), paucidad (Spanish), poquedad (Spanish), uchache [class-11, class-12, class-14] (Swahili), uhaba [class-11, class-12, class-14] (Swahili), fåtalighet [common-gender] (Swedish), knapphet [common-gender] (Swedish), нечисленність (nečyslennistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), мала кількість (mala kilʹkistʹ) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-paucity-en-noun-~z3YNbLZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'fewness in number': 91 9 Disambiguation of 'fewness in number; a small number': 89 11
  2. A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Size Synonyms (smallness in size or amount): dearth Translations (smallness in size or amount): geringheid (Dutch), niukkuus (Finnish), Knappheit [feminine] (German), έλλειψη (élleipsi) [feminine] (Greek), laghad [masculine] (Irish), paucitās [feminine] (Latin), о́скудност (óskudnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), knapphet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), knappleik [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ску́дность (skúdnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), nedostatok [masculine] (Slovak), нестача (nestača) [feminine] (Ukrainian), недостатність (nedostatnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-paucity-en-noun-p7ZIzfhV Disambiguation of Size: 0 100 Disambiguation of 'smallness in size or amount': 9 91 Disambiguation of 'smallness in size or amount': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: scantiness, scarcity, lack

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60",
          "text": "I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about.",
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          "word": "нечисленність"
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          "roman": "mala kilʹkistʹ",
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          "text": "Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.",
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          "ref": "1915, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 12, in Michael O'Halloran",
          "text": "Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.",
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        {
          "ref": "2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2",
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          "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
          "word": "geringheid"
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          "word": "niukkuus"
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          "tags": [
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          "ref": "1915, Anna Katharine Green, The Golden Slipper, problem 7",
          "text": "But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1963 January, “Beyond the Channel: France”, in Modern Railways, page 60",
          "text": "This paucity of trains helps to explain why electrification is not planned between Paris and Belfort.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 July 13, Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman, “Uncle Sam Wants You”, in Time, archived from the original on 2009-10-10",
          "text": "Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60",
          "text": "I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about.",
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        }
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          "ref": "1898, Mark Twain, At the Appetite-Cure",
          "text": "Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 12, in Michael O'Halloran",
          "text": "Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2",
          "text": "There are also texts that present more lengthy lists, of between ten and thirty examples, and in doing so include some less common terms. But, on the whole, there is at present a paucity of information about these terms.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɒs.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɔs.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɔs.ɪ.ɾi]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑ.sɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɑ.sɪ.ɾi]",
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        "Canada",
        "cot-caught-merger"
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    {
      "sense": "fewness in number",
      "word": "fewness"
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    {
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "word": "dearth"
    },
    {
      "word": "scantiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "scarcity"
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    {
      "word": "lack"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "malobrojnost",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "малобройност"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oskǎdnost",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "оскъдност"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǎoliàng",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "少量"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nedostatek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "gering aantal"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "niukkuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paucité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Mangel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "elachistótita",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ελαχιστότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "spaniótita",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "σπανιότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "laghad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "kemî",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "کەمی"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paucitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nedóstatok",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "недо́статок"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nédostig",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "не́достиг"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "ngōuruuru"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "niedostatek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penúria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nedostátočnostʹ",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "недоста́точность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nexvátka",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нехва́тка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "fewness",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "maločíslennostʹ",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "малочи́сленность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "nedostatok"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "penuria"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escasez"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "paucidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "poquedad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "class-11",
        "class-12",
        "class-14"
      ],
      "word": "uchache"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "class-11",
        "class-12",
        "class-14"
      ],
      "word": "uhaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "fåtalighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "knapphet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nečyslennistʹ",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нечисленність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mala kilʹkistʹ",
      "sense": "fewness in number; a small number",
      "word": "мала кількість"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "word": "geringheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "word": "niukkuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Knappheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "élleipsi",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "έλλειψη"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "laghad"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paucitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "óskudnost",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "о́скудност"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "knapphet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "knappleik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skúdnostʹ",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ску́дность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nedostatok"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nestača",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нестача"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nedostatnistʹ",
      "sense": "smallness in size or amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "недостатність"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Trésor de la langue française informatisé"
  ],
  "word": "paucity"
}

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