scarcity

noun

1 the scarcity of affordable housing:

shortage, dearth, lack, want, undersupply, insufficiency, paucity, scarceness, scantness, meagerness, sparseness, scantiness, poverty;

deficiency, inadequacy, limitedness;

unavailability, absence;

rare exiguity, exiguousness.

▷antonyms abundance, excess, surplus.

2 the bird's current scarcity is the result of a lack of appropriate food:

rarity, rareness, infrequency, sparseness, uncommonness, unusualness.

▷antonyms commonness.