Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being few; paucity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
- noun obsolete Brevity; conciseness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state, quality, or condition of being
few .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being small in number
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Examples
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
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The sameness and fewness of creatures shows a poverty of evolution but fits limited kinds coming from simple, relative, basic plans from a general blueprint.
Common ancestry passes another test. News at 11. - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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I am he, The Silent Man hight, by reason of the fewness of my words, to distinguish me from my six brothers.
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It suggests that the higher way, the way, not over the earth, but through the air, is to those rare souls who have grasped the principle that "a man's riches consists less in the multitude of his possessions than in the fewness of his wants."
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March 21st, 2008 at 2: 06 pm regolamento omaha lp says: regolamento omaha lp implying emotions fewness, Mansfield fractionally.
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I see at a distance, through a small hole, a man posted on the top of a house; the remoteness and fewness of the rays at first prevent me from distinguishing that it is a man; the object appears to me very small.
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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
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According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
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