fewness (noun)

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• fewness — noun see few II …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fewness — noun The state, quality, or condition of being few …   Wiktionary

• fewness — noun the quality of being small in number • Derivationally related forms: ↑few • Hypernyms: ↑number, ↑figure …   Useful english dictionary

• few — I. pronoun, plural in construction Etymology: Middle English fewe, pronoun & adjective, from Old English fēawa; akin to Old High German fō little, Latin paucus little, pauper poor, Greek paid , pais child, Sanskrit putra son Date: before 12th… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• few — /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… …  

• paucity — noun Etymology: Middle English paucite, from Latin paucitat , paucitas, from paucus little more at few Date: 15th century 1. smallness of number ; fewness 2. smallness of quantity ; dearth …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• paucity — noun a) Fewness in number; a small number. But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves. b) Smallness in size or amount; meagerness. Your tax refund might be late, owing… …   Wiktionary

• rarity — 1550s, fewness, from M.Fr. rarité (16c.) or directly from L. raritas thinness, fewness, from rarus (see RARE (Cf. rare) (adj.1)). Meaning thinness is from 1640s; noun sense of a rare thing or event: is from 1590s …   Etymology dictionary

• insufficiency — I noun absence, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, emptiness, exhaustion, exiguity, exiguousness, falling short, fewness, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompetence, incompleteness, inopia, lack, meagerness, need, not enough, paucity, penuria …   Law dictionary

• paucity — I noun absence, bare subsistence, dearth, deficiency, deprivation, destitution, drought, exigency, exiguity, famine, fewness, finite quantity, fraction, inadequacy, infrequency, insufficiency, lack, limited amount, minimum, minority, modicum,… …   Law dictionary

• paucity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. scantiness, fewness (see insufficiency). Ant., plenty. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. insufficiency, scarcity, absence; see lack 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [PAW si tee] scarcity …   English dictionary for students