SCARCENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scarceness mean? 

• SCARCENESS (noun)
  The noun SCARCENESS has 1 sense:

1. a small and inadequate amount

  Familiarity information: SCARCENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCARCENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small and inadequate amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

scarceness; scarcity

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)