scarcity

Noun

1.

scarcity - a small and inadequate amount Synonyms: scarceness Antonyms: abundance, copiousness, teemingness - the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

absence, chinchiness, chintziness, dearth, deficiency, exiguity, fewness, inadequacy, inadequateness, infrequence, infrequency, meagerness, miserliness, niggardliness, occasionalness, paucity, poverty, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scrimpiness, seldomness, shortage, skimpiness, slowness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness, tightness, uncommonness, underage, unfrequentness, uniqueness, unusualness