paucities

States of insufficiency

The plural paucities is used infrequently, and typically to describe multiple instances of lack or insufficiency.

scarcity

shortages

Insufficient quantities available

dearths · wants · absences · privations · meagerness · sparseness · scantiness · inadequacies · shortfalls · rarities

fewness

scarcities

States of insufficient supply

thinness · infrequency · uncommonness · slim pickings · bare minimum · pittance · modicum · smattering · trickle · dribble

poverty

impoverishments

Makings into paupers

deprivation · hardship · austerity · frugality · straitened circumstances · want · hand-to-mouth · tight budgets

Opposites
quantity/amount

paucitiesabundances

States of plentifulness

plethoras · profusions · excesses · surpluses · multitudes

Family

paucity, few, fewer, fewest, fewness

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