Paucity

n.	1.	Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. - I. Taylor.
	2.	Smallness of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.

Noun

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paucity - an insufficient quantity or number Synonyms: dearth

chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, exiguity, fewness, infrequency, insufficiency, meagerness, miserliness, niggardliness, poverty, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, scrimpiness, skimpiness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness, tightness, uncommonness