Synonyms for scarcity
All synonyms
Noun
1. Lack
lack, dearth, shortage, paucity, rarity, deficiency, insufficiency, infrequency, inadequacy, want, penury formal, rareness, scantiness, wantfulness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
Praise […] owes its value only to its scarcity.
Related words
- Phrases
- root of scarcity
Forms
- Plural
- scarcities → lacks, dearths, shortages, paucities…
Example sentences
- lack I had to leave out this problem for lack of space.
- shortage There is a labor shortage of computer programmers.
- dearth There is no dearth of good will, only of courage.
- paucity There was also a general paucity of trained operatives.
By length
- 4 letters
- want1, lack1
- 6 letters
- rarity3, dearth1, penury3
- 7 letters
- paucity3
- 8 letters
- shortage2, rareness2
- 10 letters
- deficiency4, inadequacy5, scantiness3, scarceness
- 11 letters
- infrequency4, wantfulness
- 13 letters
- insufficiency5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (rarity3 = 3 syllables).