n. Function: noun
smallness of supply, quantity, or number in proportion to demand FF1C; a serious scarcity of grain FF1E;
Synonyms: insufficience, insufficiency, paucity, poverty, ||scant, scarceness; compare FAILURE 3
Related Words: deficiency, shortage, underage; meagerness; rareness, uncommonness; absence, dearth, lack
Contrasted Words: sufficiency; great deal, much; overabundance, overage, oversupply, surplus
Antonyms: abundance