"Scarceness" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Scarceness" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers

Scarceness

"Scarceness" Meaning

The quality of being rare or hard to find, making something valuable or desirable.

Example: The scarcity of fresh water in the desert made every drop very precious.

Synonyms: rarity, Unavailability, sparsity.

"Scarceness" Examples

5 Examples of "Scarce" Usage:

| Example | Grammar | Part of speech | Tense | Type |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The mineral was scarce and highly valued. | Independent clause | Verb | Past | Statement |
| The publication had been experiencing a scarcity of writers. | Independent clause | Noun | Past | Statement |
| She almost had to search everywhere because the accommodation was scarce. | Independent clause | Adjective | Present | Statement |
| Despite the scarcity of water, the crops grew healthily. | Independent clause | Noun | Present | Statement |
| Compared to cities, there is a scarcity of hills in the desert. | Independent clause | Noun | Present (Compared) | Comparison |

Sources:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/scarcity | https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scarcity

"Scarceness" Similar Words

Scarabee

Scaraboid

Scarabs

A scarab is a beetling or flying insect, or a thing having the form of one of these, especially in art or architecture. In ancient Egypt, the scarab beetle was a symbol of rebirth and regeneration, due to its habit of rolling dung into a ball, laying its eggs, and burying the eggs in the dung, which served as a incubator.

Scaramouch

Scaramouche

Scarborough

Scarce

Scarcely

Rarely or hardly. Almost not at all. Used to indicate that something happens or exists hardly or very occasionally.

Scarcer

Scarcest

extremely rare or hard to get something.