scarceness
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While there’s a scarceness of concrete data to support this, the salon owners and barbers in various countries who I spoke to reported a moderate uptick in interest in body hair care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
Applied to food, dearth = scarceness; dainty = choice, delicious.
From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Edmund Spenser
It would be too tedious to dwell on the beauty, merit, and scarceness of these stones, as well as on their finished workmanship and degree of antiquity.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon
The river was the only resource, and from the scarceness of hooks the supply of fish obtainable was rather scanty.
From The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba by George Bryce
Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures:— Curséd the wight that trusteth in man Making flesh his stay!
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
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