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scarceness
scarce S0124300 (skârs)adj. scarc·er, scarc·est 1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.2. Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops.adv. Barely or hardly; scarcely.Idiom: make (oneself) scarce Informal 1. To stay away; be absent or elusive.2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond.
[Middle English scars, from Old French scars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus, narrow, cramped, from past participle of *excarpere, to pluck out, alteration of Latin excerpere, to pick out; see excerpt.]
scarce′ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | scarceness - a small and inadequate amountscarcityinadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"paucity, dearth - an insufficient quantity or numberinfrequency, rareness, rarity - noteworthy scarcity |
scarcenessnounThe condition or fact of being deficient:defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage.TranslationsIdiomsSeescarcescarceness
Synonyms for scarcenessnoun the condition or fact of being deficientSynonyms- defect
- deficiency
- deficit
- inadequacy
- insufficiency
- lack
- paucity
- poverty
- scantiness
- scantness
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- underage
Synonyms for scarcenessnoun a small and inadequate amountSynonymsRelated Words- inadequacy
- deficiency
- insufficiency
- paucity
- dearth
- infrequency
- rareness
- rarity
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