scarcity (n.)
- absence
- dearth
- deficiency
- exiguity
- fewness
- inadequacy
- inadequateness
- infrequency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- miserliness
- need
- niggardliness
- paucity
- poverty
- rareness
- rarity
- scant
- scantiness
- scarceness
- shortage
- slowness
- smallness
- sparseness
- sparsity
- stinginess
- stringency
- thinness
- tightness
- uncommonness
- underage
- uniqueness
- unusualness
- want
