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

There was a great scarceness of lead for bullets; and to supply that need the leaden sashes, in which window-panes were at that time set, were melted down.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

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 Bryce, George

It was specially disastrous because it was accompanied by times of scarceness and by changes connected with a revolution in agriculture which pressed heavily on many of the poorer classes.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

Still, if scarceness is an element of value, these things should be precious.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton