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SCARCENESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A small and inadequate amountplay

Synonyms:

scarceness; scarcity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("scarceness" is a kind of...):

deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scarceness"):

dearth; paucity (an insufficient quantity or number)

infrequency; rareness; rarity (noteworthy scarcity)

Derivation:

scarce (deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand)

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