
1) Dearth 2) Deficiency 3) French word used in English 4) Inadequacy 5) Insufficiency 6) Lack 7) Paucity 8) Poor quality 9) Rareness 10) Rarity 11) Scantiness 12) Scarceness 13) Shortage 14) Small number
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1) Dearth 2) Infrequency 3) Lack 4) Paucity 5) Rareness 6) Rarity 7) Scarceness 8) Shortfall
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Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. A common misconception on scarcity is that an item has to be important for it to be scarce. However, this is not true, for somethi...
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[social psychology] Scarcity, in the area of social psychology, works much like scarcity in the area of economics. Simply put, humans place a higher value on an object that is scarce, and a lower value on those that are abundant. The thought that we, as humans, want something we cannot have drives us to desire the object even more. This ide...
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• (n.) The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.
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(from the article `price system`) Price systems are therefore the result of scarcity. The basic proposition of economics, that scarcities are essentially ubiquitous, is often phrased ...
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A lack of resources to meet all consumer wants.
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In economics, insufficient availability of resources to satisfy wants. The use of scarce resources has an
opportunity cost. ...
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Insufficient supply or amount of fish, a shortage of fish.
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[
n] - a small and inadequate amount
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scarcity 1. A small and inadequate supply or amount; shortage. 2. Rarity of appearance or occurrence; rarity; infrequency; such as, coins, antiques, books, etc.
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scarceness noun a small and inadequate amount
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[Lexical terms] a small and inadequate amount
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