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n. Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage: a scarcity of food that was caused by drought.

n. Rarity of appearance or occurrence: antiques that are valued for their scarcity.

n. the condition of something being scarce or deficient

n. an inadequate amount of something; a shortage

n. Sparingness; parsimony; niggardliness; stinginess.

n. The state or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity or number, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; absolutely, deficiency of things necessary to the subsistence of man; dearth; want; famine.

n. Synonyms Scarcity, Dearth, Famine. Scarcity of the necessities of life is not so severe as dearth, nor dearth so severe as famine. Primarily, dearth is a scarcity that is felt in high prices, and famine such scarcity that people have to go hungry; but both are generally stronger than their derivation would suggest, famine often standing for extreme difficulty in getting anything whatever to support life.

n. a small and inadequate amount

"The types of anxiety that I associate with this level are what I refer to as scarcity and avoidance."

copiousness    abundance   

inadequacy    deficiency    insufficiency   

scarcity-root   

infrequency    rarity    paucity    rareness    dearth   

deficiency    fewness   

shortage    dearth    abundance    importation    cheapness    famine    privation    consumption    exportation    deficiency