Paucity (noun)
paw-sit-ee
The presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
A word that is slowly disappearing from everyday usage and yet it is such a descriptively brilliant word, such a shame that it is becoming self fulfilling.
Example sentences
“There is a paucity of factual information about Europe right now, and that is what we need.”
“Despite there being a cure for Malaria, there is a paucity of medicine in the most affected areas making it an almost epidemic disease..”
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