Paucity vs Fecundity - What's the difference?
paucity | fecundity |
Fewness in number; too few.
* 1915 , , The Golden Slipper , problem 7:
* 2006 , Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, "
A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
* 1898 , , "At the Appetite-Cure":
* 1915 , , Michael O'Halloran , ch. 12:
Ability to produce offspring.
* 2006 , , “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens , Corgi, p. 410
Ability to cause growth.
Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
Rate of production of young by a female.
As nouns the difference between paucity and fecundity
is that paucity is fewness in number; too few while fecundity is ability to produce offspring.paucity
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Noun
- But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
Uncle Sam Wants You," Time , 13 July:
- Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.
- Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
- Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.
Synonyms
* dearth, scantiness, scarcityExternal links
* * *fecundity
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier)Noun
(en-noun)- 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.