Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage: a scarcity of food that was caused by drought.
- n. Rarity of appearance or occurrence: antiques that are valued for their scarcity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Sparingness; parsimony; niggardliness; stinginess.
- n. The state or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity or number, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; absolutely, deficiency of things necessary to the subsistence of man; dearth; want; famine.
- n. Synonyms Scarcity, Dearth, Famine. Scarcity of the necessities of life is not so severe as dearth, nor dearth so severe as famine. Primarily, dearth is a scarcity that is felt in high prices, and famine such scarcity that people have to go hungry; but both are generally stronger than their derivation would suggest, famine often standing for extreme difficulty in getting anything whatever to support life.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable the condition of something being scarce or deficient
- n. countable an inadequate amount of something; a shortage
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small and inadequate amount
Examples
“The types of anxiety that I associate with this level are what I refer to as scarcity and avoidance.”
“The American scholar, Regina Schwartz, in a provocative book on the dangers of monotheism as reflected in the Jewish and Christian Bible (The Curse of Cain, Chicago 1997), has argued that underlying this question in Scripture is a tension between what she calls scarcity and plenitude.”
Paper for Seminar 'Scriptures in Monotheistic Faith' at St Egidio Conference, Naples, Italy
“This removes the notion of scarcity from a definition - not that scarcity isn't important, but it always helped my students think about problems like relative abundance more easily.”
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“I don't understand how you can say scarcity is not important in some parts of economics.”
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Or as Michael Mandel might put it, that's one of the "big chunks of the economy where scarcity is not important, in any but a formal sense.”
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“It's easy to believe that scarcity is not important, when you have fallen victim to the illusion of abundance.”
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Yes, scarcity is a major part of this trade, largely due to the unlimited wants us as a nation and world posses.”
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“While the problem of land scarcity is an issue, this recalls Le Corbusier at his absolute worst, and is a pretty ironic design for a French city.”
““Since scarcity is produced by desire, there is no technoloical threat on the horizon.””
Economics of Nanotechnology, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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me + student loans =
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SAT Words That Mean 'Scarce or Poor'
A list of SAT words that mean 'scarce or poor.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words by meaning can help you to memorize more effectively.
dearth, deficit, destitute, exiguous, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, meager, paltry, paucity, penurious and 3 more...
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Name Suggestions for Ultra-Compact Cars
A companion list to Name Suggestions for Even Bigger SUVs and Trucks. :-)
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Scantiness
Words related to scantiness.
exiguity, exiguousness, scarcity, sparseness, scarceness, paucity, rarity
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