- “Want cats!” I cry out
- Insufficiency
- Paucity
- Petiteness
- The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of
quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of
plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity
of beauties.
- Deficiency
- Gap in supply
- Ineffectualness
- Paucity
- Tag coming inshore causes deficit
- Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some
requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.