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All fewness synonyms

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noun fewness

  • lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
  • smallness — of limited size; of comparatively restricted dimensions; not big; little: a small box.
  • insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
  • dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
  • paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
  • scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
  • make oneself scarce — insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
  • rarity — something rare, unusual, or uncommon: Snowstorms are a rarity in the South.
  • famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
  • deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
  • absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
  • shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
  • meagerness — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
  • poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
  • slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
  • sparseness — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
  • slenderness — having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post.
  • sparsity — thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
  • scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
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