Usually means: Insufficient amount; scarcity; dearth; lack.
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  1. paucity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paucity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paucity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paucity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Paucity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. paucity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. paucity: Free Dictionary
  8. paucity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. paucity: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  10. paucity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  11. paucity: Vocabulary.com
  12. Paucity, paucity: Wordnik
  13. paucity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  14. paucity: Wiktionary
  15. paucity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  16. paucity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  17. paucity: Infoplease Dictionary
  18. paucity: Dictionary.com
  19. paucity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  20. paucity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  21. Paucity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  22. Paucity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  23. paucity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. paucity: Rhymezone

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  1. paucity: Legal dictionary

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  1. paucity: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Fewness in number; too few.
noun:  A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.

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