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Paucity vs Pittance - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between paucity and pittance

is that paucity is fewness in number; too few while pittance is a small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.

paucity

English

Noun

  • Fewness in number; too few.
  • * 1915 , , The Golden Slipper , problem 7:
    • But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
  • * 2006 , Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, " Uncle Sam Wants You," Time , 13 July:
    • Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.
  • A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
  • * 1898 , , "At the Appetite-Cure":
    • Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
  • * 1915 , , Michael O'Halloran , ch. 12:
    • Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.

    Synonyms

    * dearth, scantiness, scarcity

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    pittance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
  • A meagre allowance of money or wages.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
  • A small amount.