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. 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.

2. Celine Gounder:

   I think this is policy being driven by scarcity. And this is not the first time we have seen this happen, public health policy is going to be driven not just by science, but by political, economic and social considerations. But I do feel like science is taking a back seat here.

3. Tin Maung Swe:

   If we cannot clean the ponds in time, the locals will face drinking water scarcity in the hot season.

4. John Fleck:

   We're now seeing the model for what the future of Colorado River Basin water use looks like, where scarcity is the norm and drought is not some special short-term thing, this is the way of life we're in now with climate change reducing the flow on Colorado River.

5. Martin Halle:

   A few things are very clear: the demand for food is going up tremendously because of population growth, [Food production] is becoming more unstable because climate change is affecting production, in the context of growing land and water scarcity. There's very little leeway between supply and demand.