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

This fact, I think, is due to the abundance and cheapness of fuel in earlier, and its growing scarceness and dearness in later, ages.

From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

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

Its value advances yearly, with the increasing scarceness of the animal; it will soon entirely disappear, and exist only in description to decorate our zoological works.

From A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 by Kotzebue, Otto von

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