Word Meanings - FEWNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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.