scarcity
noun/ˈskɛɹsɪti/US/ˈskɛəsɪti/UK
Etymology
Definitions
The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
- Praise […] owes its value only to its scarcity.
- To understand the events of the next fifty years, then, one must understand environmental scarcity, cultural and racial clash, geographic destiny, and the transformation of war.
An inadequate amount of something
An inadequate amount of something; a shortage.
- a scarcity of grain
- The crucial and intersecting challenges of scarcities, both emerging and intensifying, will consume China’s custodians over the next decade.
The neighborhood
- synonymrareness
- synonymrarity
- synonymdeficiency
- synonymlack
- synonyminfrequency
- synonympenury
- synonymwant
- antonymfrequencyantonym(s) of
- antonymcommonness
- antonymabundanceantonym(s) of
- antonymcopiousness
- antonymexcess
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at scarcity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at scarcity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at scarcity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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