fewness

Roget category 103

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.5. Number
›› 1.5.3. Indeterminate number

#103. Fewness

noun

fewness etc. adj. — paucity, small number — small quantity etc. 32 — rarity — infrequency etc. 137 — handful, maniple — minority — exiguity.
[Diminution of number] reduction — weeding etc. v. — elimination, sarculation^†, decimation — eradication.

verb

be few etc. adj.. render few etc. adj. — reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate.

adjective

few — scant, scanty — thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous — infrequent etc. 137 — rari nantes [Lat.] — hardly any, scarcely any — to be counted on one's fingers — reduced etc. v. — unrepeated^†.

adverb

rarely, here and there.

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