scarceness
- a word derived from scarce.
Example Sentences
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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
There was a great scarceness of lead for bullets; and to supply that need the leaden sashes, in which window-panes were at that time set, were melted down.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
The river was the only resource, and from the scarceness of hooks the supply of fish obtainable was rather scanty.
From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by Bryce, George
If he be vanquished, Or make his peace, Egypt is doomed to be A Roman province; and our plenteous harvests Must then redeem the scarceness of their soil.
From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by Dryden, John
The occurrence of these large boulders together with the scarceness of fossils has suggested a glacial origin for the formation; but the evidence hitherto collected is not conclusive.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
