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Word Meanings - FEWNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak. 2. Brevity; conciseness. Shak.

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  • SCANTINESS
    Quality condition of being scanty.
  • FEWNESS
    1. The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak. 2. Brevity; conciseness. Shak.
  • DEARTH
    Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot,
  • RARITY
    1. The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity of gases. 2. That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity. I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows
  • PAUCITY
    1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor. 2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T.
  • INFREQUENCE; INFREQUENCY
    1. The state of rarely occuring; uncommonness; rareness; as, the infrquence of his visits. 2. The state of not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion. The solitude and infrequency of the place. Bp. Hall.

 

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