Word of the Day – Paucity

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..”