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paucity

English

Etymology

From Middle French paucité, from Old French, from Latin paucit?s (a small number, fewness, scarcity), from paucus (few, little), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?w-, *ph?w- (few, small) (English few).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?p?s?ti/, /?p?s?ti/

Noun

paucity (countable and uncountable, plural paucities)

  1. Fewness in number; too few.
  2. A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 407]:
      Genteel America was handicapped by meagerness of soul, thinness of temper, paucity of talent.

Synonyms

  • (fewness in number): See Thesaurus:fewness
  • (smallness in size or amount): dearth, scantiness, scarcity; see also Thesaurus:lack

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

  • paucity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • paucity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • paucity at OneLook Dictionary Search

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fecundity

English

Alternative forms

  • fœcundity (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin f?cundit?s (fruitfulness, fertility), from f?cundus.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /f??k?nd?t?/
  • Hyphenation: fe?cun?di?ty

Noun

fecundity (usually uncountable, plural fecundities)

  1. Ability to produce offspring.
    • 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens, Corgi, p. 410
      In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
  2. Ability to cause growth.
  3. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
  4. Rate of production of young by a female.

Synonyms

  • (ability to produce offspring): fertileness, fertility

Related terms

  • fecund
  • fecundation

Translations

Further reading

  • fecundity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • fecundity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • fecundity in the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, English section, second edition, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liège, 1982
  • fecundity at OneLook Dictionary Search

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