scarcity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lack want deficiency rarity dearth penury scarceness infrequency rareness need gold dust rare failure absence poverty

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Antonyms

abundance copiousness moreover blizzard oscar plenum

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Hypernyms

deficiency insufficiency inadequacy

Hyponyms

rarity dearth paucity infrequency rareness

Phrases with the word

scarcity of people money scarcity scarcity price scarcity value

Examples

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. Maya Angelou

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. Edmund Burke

The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment. Norman Angell

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne W. Dyer

Scarcity sets the price. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

scarcement scarcen scarceness scarcity of people scarcity price scarcity value