All fewness synonyms
few·ness
F f 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.