paucity

Fewness in number; too few.

But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.

For sheer paucity of railway facilities, probably the record in Great Britain is held by the Scottish county of Nairn, which has about eight miles of railway and two stations—Nairn and Auldearn.

A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.

It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.