If there is a cupcake scarcity in your kitchen, there are hardly any cupcakes around, and you're not sure that any will be appearing any time soon.
Noun
a small and inadequate amount
n.
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.
Usage Examples
To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Other Usage ExamplesNo complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
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