"Paucity" (PAW-sih-tee) – from the Latin for "few" – is scarcity or scantiness.
Example (as used by Jordan Robertson for Associated Press): "The paucity of iPhones for sale in some markets comes as Apple is hustling to meet its goal of selling 10 million of the hybrid iPod-cellphone-Internet surfing gadgets by the end of 2008."
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