exiguity
71scarcity — noun the scarcity of affordable housing Syn: shortage, dearth, lack, want, undersupply, insufficiency, paucity, scarceness, scantness, scantiness, meagerness, sparseness, poverty; deficiency, inadequacy; unavailability, absence; rare exiguity …
72dearth — n 1. scarcity, scarceness, lack, want; deficiency, shortness, shortage, insufficiency, stint; scantiness, paucity, exiguity, meagerness, rareness; sparseness, seldomness, fewness, poorness, barrenness; depletion, exhaustion, emptiness, vacuity. 2 …
73drought — n 1. aridity, aridness, parchedness, extreme dryness, thirstiness, waterlessness, droughtiness; dehydration, evaporation, desiccation; torridity, torridness. 2. dearth, scarcity, scarceness, lack, want; deficiency, shortness, shortage,… …
74famine — n 1. scarcity of food, large scale food shortage, bare subsistence. 2. hunger, starvation, inanition, Rare. famishment; fast, diet, xerophagy, Lent; privation, deprivation, half rations, Chiefly Brit. short commons, Psychiatry. anorexia. 3.… …
75insufficiency — n 1. deficiency, inadequacy, inade quateness, insufficience, insufficientness; scarcity, dearth, exiguity, paucity, scantiness, scantness, mea gerness, none to spare, stint, lack, want, short supply, need, wantage; falling short, shortcoming,… …
76meagerness — n 1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness,… …
77narrowness — n 1. closeness, nearness, tightness, tight squeeze, confinement; crowdedness, incommo diousness, Obs. incapaciousness; straitness, restriction, restrictedness, attenuation, reduction, curtailment, constriction, limitation, circumscription;… …
78penury — n 1. poverty, extreme poverty, destitution, need, want; straits, straitened circumstances, beggary, pauperism, pauperage; mendicancy, mendicity; impecuniousness, insolvency, bankruptcy, inability to pay, liquidation, failure, default; privation,… …
79poverty — n 1. indigence, impoverishment, penury, impecuniousness, neediness, necessitousness; privation, destitution, pennilessness, hand to mouth existence; beggary, pauperism, mendicity; distress, difficulties, straits, narrow straits, straitened or… …
80rarity — n 1. nonesuch, nonpareil, one of a kind, one in a thousand, Inf. one for the books, Inf. something to write home about, Inf. something else; oddity, curiosity, funny or peculiar or strange thing, curio, conversation piece; abnormality, anomaly;… …
