Usually means: Insufficient amount; scarcity; dearth; lack.
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▸ noun:  Fewness in number; too few.
▸ noun:  A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.

Similar:
dearth, scant, tenuity, shortage, underabundance, penury, underenumeration, lacklessness, undergeneration, numberlessness, more...

Opposite:
abundance, plenty, copiousness, prolificness

Types:
scant, sparse, meager, scarce, deficient, more...

Phrases:
opposite of paucity, more...

Adjectives:
relative, general, extreme, comparative, great, such, apparent, very, remarkable, marked, surprising

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     off-white,     sand, more...


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Similar:
dearth, scant, tenuity, shortage, underabundance, penury, underenumeration, lacklessness, undergeneration, numberlessness, more...

Opposite:
abundance, plenty, copiousness, prolificness

Types:
scant, sparse, meager, scarce, deficient, more...

Phrases:
opposite of paucity, more...

Adjectives:
relative, general, extreme, comparative, great, such, apparent, very, remarkable, marked, surprising

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     off-white,     sand, more...



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