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What is another word for scarcity?

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Noun
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The state of being scarce or in short supply
shortage
dearth
lack
paucity
want
deficiency
insufficiency
poverty
scarceness
undersupply
inadequacy
scantiness
absence
crunch
deficit
drought
drouth
exiguity
failure
famine
inadequateness
lacuna
limitedness
meagreness
pinch
scantness
sparseness
unavailability
exiguousness
infrequency
rareness
penury
sparsity
stringency
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“Construction activities were severely limited during this period due to a scarcity of supplies, labor, and funding.”
Noun
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The state of being uncommon or rare
rareness
rarity
infrequency
uncommonness
unusualness
sparseness
oddity
anomaly
abnormality
aberration
irregularity
exception
oddment
singularity
strangeness
scarceness
uniqueness
paucity
shortage
fewness
intermittence
unevenness
patchiness
inconsistency
“There is a relative scarcity of strong winds in this area.”
Noun
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A general condition of economic or financial poverty
poverty
destitution
penury
indigence
pennilessness
want
beggary
impoverishment
pauperism
privation
impecuniosity
impecuniousness
insolvency
need
bankruptcy
destituteness
penuriousness
poorness
pauperdom
neediness
lack
deficiency
hardship
insufficiency
shortage
paucity
starvation
inadequacy
famine
meagerness
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“When there is enormous economic scarcity on the bottom of the social pyramid, pluralism can undo democracy.”
Noun
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The quality or condition of being plain or barren in form or design
austerity
plainness
starkness
simplicity
spareness
severity
cleanness
primitiveness
economy
barrenness
shortage
bareness
baldness
rusticism
dourness
spartanism
Spartanism
unadornment
restraint
simpleness
austereness
unsophistication
uncomplicatedness
lack of decoration
lack of ornament
lack of embellishment
lack of adornment
functionalism
elementariness
unfussiness
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Noun
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Deficiency in quantity or quality
short of
lacking
wanting
insufficiency
lack
minus
missing
deficient in
short on
wanting in
with an insufficiency of
with too few …
with too little …
lacking in
low on
in need of
Noun
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A shortcoming or weakness
defect
flaw
deficiency
fault
imperfection
failing
weakness
shortcoming
inadequacy
want
foible
frailty
lack
drawback
sin
infirmity
injury
shortage
unsoundness
vice
weak spot
weak point
limitation
blemish
problem
snag
demerit
disadvantage
catch
handicap
more ❯
Noun
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A requirement for something
need
demand
requirement
urgency
necessity
use
wish
call
desire
hunger
imperative
longing
requisite
urge
yearning
covetousness
craving
eagerness
exigency
fervourUK
fervorUS
hankering
lust
market
occasion
pining
predilection
proclivity
propensity
thirst
absence
appetite
aspiration
cry out
dearth
deficit
desideratum
dream
lustfulness
needfulness
scantiness
scarceness
exigence
inclination
necessitude
passion
support
ambition
drive
drought
expectation
fancy
focus
strong interest
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