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