Scarcity vs Paucity - What's the difference?

Paucity is a synonym of scarcity.

is that scarcity is the condition of something being scarce or deficient while paucity is fewness in number; too few.

(wikipedia scarcity)

(uncountable) the condition of something being scarce or deficient

* Rambler

Praise owes its value to its scarcity .

(countable) an inadequate amount of something; a shortage

a scarcity of grain

* dearth * deficiency * lack * infrequency * penury * rareness * rarity * want

* abundance * copiousness

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.

* dearth, scantiness, scarcity

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