5
barrenness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
default(noun, weakness, failure, want, need)
5
defect(noun, weakness, failure, want, need)
5
drought(noun, want, lack, deficiency, shortage)
5
exiguity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
fewness(noun, lack, scarcity, scantiness, rareness)
5
penury(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
5
rareness(noun, lack, shortage, scarcity, scantiness)
5
rarity(noun, lack, shortage, scarcity, scantiness)
5
scantness(noun, weakness, failure, lack, shortage)
5
shortfall(noun, weakness, failure, want, need)
5
skimpiness(noun, failure, need, lack, failing)
5
sparsity(noun, lack, shortage, scarcity, scantiness)
5
undersupply
4
exiguousness(noun, need, lack, shortage, absence)
4
impoverishment(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure)
4
inadequateness(noun, defect, deficiency, imperfection, inadequacy)
4
meagreness
4
minimum(noun, fewness)
3
flyspeck(noun, insufficiency)
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