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From Dictionary.com:
pau·ci·ty [paw-si-tee] -noun

1. smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness.
2. smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness.

She said to him, “You have a paucity of original ideas. Have you thought about joining a collective? Drones are not useless.”

Looking over the skyline, with its different windows, all green, grey, or brown, he felt melancholy. “There’s such a paucity of shapes a building can assume,” he thought.

Withered, grey hamburger meat lounged, its base widening as if to get a better grip of the cardboard. When he thought about the puacity of food in areas with people colored differently, he felt shame.

She stomped across the marble museum. The charcoal sleeves of her jacket made mouse-whispers that echoed around her chamber, and she stopped in front of the leaning security guard. She spoke in a thin voice with an undertow, “There are things to do. We’ve been through this. There are things to do.” He looked at the color at the outside edge of her iris. “You are a puacity, ma’am.” She took it as a compliment.