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
Such changes may be brought about either by the plenty, or scarceness, of the herbage; or by the nature of the country on which that herbage is produced.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose
This fact, I think, is due to the abundance and cheapness of fuel in earlier, and its growing scarceness and dearness in later, ages.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
Applied to food, dearth = scarceness; dainty = choice, delicious.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund
He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
