dearth (n.)
- absence
- aridity
- barrenness
- contraception
- default
- defect
- deficiency
- dryness
- exiguity
- famine
- impotence
- inadequacy
- ineffectualness
- infertility
- infrequency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- miss
- need
- paucity
- poverty
- privation
- rareness
- rarity
- scantiness
- scantness
- scarceness
- scarcity
- shortage
- sparseness
- sparsity
- sterileness
- sterility
- uncommonness
- unproductiveness
- want
