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prettygoodwordpaucity (PAW-si-tee) - n., smallness of number, fewness; smallness of paucity, dearth.
With a connotation of insufficiency so strong that it's given as denotation in some dictionaries. Entered English around 1400 as paucite, from Old French, from Latin paucitās, from paucus, few/little, from PIA *peh₂w-, also few/little -- so the dual sense of both countable and uncountable quantities was there from the start.
---L.
With a connotation of insufficiency so strong that it's given as denotation in some dictionaries. Entered English around 1400 as paucite, from Old French, from Latin paucitās, from paucus, few/little, from PIA *peh₂w-, also few/little -- so the dual sense of both countable and uncountable quantities was there from the start.
---L.
