Synonyms for scarcity
ˈskɛər sɪ tiscarci·ty

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1. scarcitynoun

   Antonyms:
   abundance, copiousness

2. scarcitynoun

   Antonyms:
   copiousness, abundance

3. scarcitynoun

   Antonyms:
   abundance, copiousness

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1. scarcity

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, lack, infrequency, want, dearth, rarity

   Antonyms:
   plenty, abundance, frequency

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1. scarcity, scarcenessnoun

   a small and inadequate amount

   Synonyms:
   scarceness

   Antonyms:
   copiousness, teemingness, abundance

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1. • Insufficiency

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1. scarcitynoun

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, dearth, want, insufficiency, lack

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1. scarcitynoun

   Synonyms:
   dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, drought, rarity, paucity

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1. List of paraphrases for "scarcity":

   shortage, rarity, paucity, rarety, dearth, shortages, lack, rarefaction, shortfall

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1. Rowland Shea:

   With climate change increasing water scarcity in much of the West, consideration of energy development impacts on watersheds can no longer be optional.

2. Katie Baldassar:

   They clean hotel rooms over in Vail. They work construction over in Breckenridge, and they're experiencing the double-headed monster of food scarcity and obesity.

3. Galen Karlan-Mason:

   A diet without meat products can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 49 percent and water-scarcity weighted water footprint by 19 percent.

4. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

5. Ali Al-Naimi:

   I've seen oil at under $2 a barrel and at $147, and much volatility in between. I've witnessed gluts and scarcity. I've seen multiple booms and busts, these experiences have taught me that this business, and this commodity, like all commodities, is inevitably cyclical. Demand rises and falls. Supply rises and falls. Prices rise and fall.