paucity
PAW-sih-teenounMeaning a very small amount; scarcity
Memory hook PAW-CITY: hardly any PAWS. Paw City built a giant dog park, and on opening day just one dog showed up. With so few paws, the park suffers a paucity of dogs.
The report’s paucity of facts made it hard to believe.
In context Scientists know little about the giant deep-sea squid because of a paucity of evidence: only a handful have ever been photographed alive.
Similar scarcity, lack, shortage, dearth
Opposite abundance, plethora, profusion
From Latin paucitas, from paucus, “few.”