fewness

  • 91paucity — pau·ci·ty || pɔːsÉ™tɪ n. lack, scarcity, scantiness; fewness, state of being very few in number …

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  • 92paucity — n. 1. Fewness, small number, rarity. 2. Smallness of quantity, poverty, exiguity …

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  • 93thinness — n. 1. Slenderness, slimness, meagreness, leanness, gauntness, emaciation, lankness. 2. Meagreness, poorness, slenderness. 3. Tenuity, fineness, slenderness, delicacy, exiguity. 4. Tenuity, rareness. 5. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtilty,… …

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  • 94dearth — n 1. scarcity, scarceness, lack, want; deficiency, shortness, shortage, insufficiency, stint; scantiness, paucity, exiguity, meagerness, rareness; sparseness, seldomness, fewness, poorness, barrenness; depletion, exhaustion, emptiness, vacuity. 2 …

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  • 95famine — n 1. scarcity of food, large scale food shortage, bare subsistence. 2. hunger, starvation, inanition, Rare. famishment; fast, diet, xerophagy, Lent; privation, deprivation, half rations, Chiefly Brit. short commons, Psychiatry. anorexia. 3.… …

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  • 96infrequency — n rarity, rareness, seldomness, unwontedness, infrequence; uncommonness, unusualness, exceptionality; irregularity, intermittence, occa sionalness, occasionality, sporadicity. 2. fewness, scarcity, scarceness, scantness, scantiness, meagerness,… …

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  • 97penury — n 1. poverty, extreme poverty, destitution, need, want; straits, straitened circumstances, beggary, pauperism, pauperage; mendicancy, mendicity; impecuniousness, insolvency, bankruptcy, inability to pay, liquidation, failure, default; privation,… …

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  • 98rarity — n 1. nonesuch, nonpareil, one of a kind, one in a thousand, Inf. one for the books, Inf. something to write home about, Inf. something else; oddity, curiosity, funny or peculiar or strange thing, curio, conversation piece; abnormality, anomaly;… …

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  • 99paucity — pau•ci•ty [[t]ˈpɔ sɪ ti[/t]] n. 1) smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness 2) smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness • Etymology: 1375–1425; late ME paucite < L paucitās, der. of paucus few; see ity …

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  • 100few — /fju / (say fyooh) adjective 1. not many; a small number: few clouds in the sky. –pronoun 2. a small number of people or things: few would agree. –phrase 3. a few, a. a small number. b. (ironic) (especially with reference to alcoholic drink) a… …