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Scarceness

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Noun

1. scarceness, scarcity

a small and inadequate amount

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Scarceness

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adjective
1. 
rarely encountered
2. 
insufficient to meet the demand
3.  make oneself scarce
adverb
4. archaic or literary
scarcely

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Scarceness

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adjectiveWord forms: scarcer or scarcest
1. 
not common; rarely seen
2. 
not plentiful; not sufficient to meet the demand; hard to get
adverb
3.  Literary
scarcely

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Scarceness

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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.

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