NOUN | attribute | scarceness, scarcity | a small and inadequate amount |
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Meaning | A small and inadequate amount. | |
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Synonym | scarcity | |
Narrower | dearth, paucity | An insufficient quantity or number |
rarity, rareness, infrequency | noteworthy scarcity | |
Broader | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
Opposite | abundance, copiousness, teemingness | The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply |
Spanish | apretura, carestía, escasez, exigüidad, falta, parvedad | |
Catalan | escassetat | |
Adjectives | scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand |
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