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Synonyms of scarcity in English:

scarcity


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noun

1‘the scarcity of affordable housing’

SYNONYMS
shortage, dearth, lack, want, undersupply, insufficiency, paucity, scarceness, scantness, meagreness, sparseness, scantiness, poverty
deficiency, inadequacy, limitedness
unavailability, absence
rare exiguity, exiguousness
ANTONYMS

abundance, excess, surplus

2‘the bird's current scarcity is the result of a lack of appropriate food’

SYNONYMS
rarity, rareness, infrequency, sparseness, uncommonness, unusualness
ANTONYMS

commonness