different between poverty vs paucity

English

Etymology

From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupert?s, from pauper (“poor”) + -tas (“noun of state suffix”). Cognates include pauper, poor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?v?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??v?ti/

Noun

poverty (usually uncountable, plural poverties)

1. The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:poverty

Antonyms

• See also Thesaurus:wealth

Derived terms

• energy poverty
• period poverty
• poverty line
• poverty of the stimulus
• poverty-ridden
• poverty-stricken
• primary poverty
• secondary poverty
• transport poverty

Related terms

• poor
• poorness

Translations

See also

• aporophobia

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