scarceness

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scarce

(skârs)

adj. scarc·er, scarc·est

1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought.

2. Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops.

adv.

Barely or hardly; scarcely.

Idiom:

make (oneself) scarce Informal

1. To stay away; be absent or elusive.

2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond.

[Middle English scars, from Old French scars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus, narrow, cramped, from past participle of *excarpere, to pluck out, alteration of Latin excerpere, to pick out; see excerpt.]

scarce′ness n.

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Noun

scarceness - a small and inadequate amount

scarcity

inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

paucity, dearth - an insufficient quantity or number

infrequency, rareness, rarity - noteworthy scarcity

scarceness

noun

The condition or fact of being deficient:

defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage.

Translations

penuria scarsità

scarceness

, scarcity

n (= shortage) → Knappheit f; (= rarity) → Seltenheit f; because of the scarcity of talent among the singers/pupils → weil so wenige Sänger/Schüler wirklich begabt sind; his pictures are expensive because of their scarceness → seine Bilder sind teuer, weil es so wenige davon gibt; a scarcity of qualified people → ein Mangel m → an qualifizierten Kräften; in times of scarcity → in schlechten Zeiten; there are many scarcities in wartime → in Kriegszeiten ist vieles knapp

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But she was taken away seven years ago, and I have no other kindred that I know of, besides my Aunt Poyser, who is very good to me, and would have me come and live in this country, which to be sure is a good land, wherein they eat bread without scarceness.

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