scarcity

Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage.

Rarity of appearance or occurrence.

Sparingness; parsimony; niggardliness; stinginess.

The state or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity or number, or smallness in proportion to the wants or demands; absolutely, deficiency of things necessary to the subsistence of man; dearth; want; famine.

Synonyms Scarcity, Dearth, Famine. Scarcity of the necessities of life is not so severe as dearth, nor dearth so severe as famine. Primarily, dearth is a scarcity that is felt in high prices, and famine such scarcity that people have to go hungry; but both are generally stronger than their derivation would suggest, famine often standing for extreme difficulty in getting anything whatever to support life.

the condition of something being scarce or deficient

an inadequate amount of something; a shortage

a small and inadequate amount