Difference between Paucity and Dearth

What is the difference between Paucity and Dearth?

Paucity as a noun is fewness in number; a small number. while Dearth as a noun is a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

Paucity

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Fewness in number; a small number. Smallness in size or amount; meagerness.

Dearth

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.Scarcity; a lack or short supply.Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

Example sentence: Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

We hope you now know whether to use Paucity or Dearth in your sentence.

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