paucity
Notable lack of
Paucity is a scarcity or insufficiency of something: a paucity of evidence, a paucity of good options.
The word is somewhat formal and appears most often in academic or professional writing.
It emphasizes not just that something is rare, but that there's less of it than needed or expected.
Deficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- lackDeficiency or absence
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
sparsity · scantiness · meagerness · deficit · undersupply · depletion · want · exiguity
Extreme lack of money
- privationLack of necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
neediness · pauperism · hardship · want · poorness · pennilessness · beggary · subsistence
Without legal effect
- absenceState of not being
- vacuumAbsence of matter
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- hollownessState of being empty inside
blankness · nothingness · vacancy · desolation · lacuna · gap · incompleteness
State of being unusual
- infrequencyState of occurring seldom
- seldomnessState of being infrequent
- unusualnessState of being atypical
- scarcenessInsufficiency of supply
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- lackDeficiency or absence
insufficiency · sparsity · scantiness · meagerness · deficit · undersupply · depletion · want · exiguity · inadequacy
penury
Extreme lack of money
- privationLack of necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
impoverishment · neediness · pauperism · hardship · want · poorness · pennilessness · beggary · subsistence · deprivation
void
Without legal effect
- absenceState of not being
- vacuumAbsence of matter
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
hollowness · blankness · nothingness · vacancy · desolation · lacuna · gap · incompleteness
uncommonness
State of being unusual
- infrequencyState of occurring seldom
- seldomnessState of being infrequent
- unusualnessState of being atypical