paucity (n.)

• dearth
• exiguity
• fewness
• infrequency
• insufficiency
• meagerness
• miserliness
• niggardliness
• poverty
• rareness
• rarity
• scant
• scantiness
• scarceness
• scarcity
• smallness
• sparseness
• sparsity
• stinginess
• stringency
• thinness
• tightness
• uncommonness