Dearth

n.

1.

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. - Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. - Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. - Dryden.

Noun	1.	dearth - an acute insufficiency Synonyms: famine, shortage
	2.	dearth - an insufficient quantity or number Synonyms: paucity

absence, aridity, barrenness, birth control, contraception, default, defect, deficiency, dry womb, dryness, exiguity, exiguousness, family planning, famine, impotence, inadequacy, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, infrequency, insufficiency, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, planned parenthood, poverty, privation, rareness, rarity, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, sterileness, sterility, uncommonness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, want, withered loins