dearth
noun
[ dəːθ ]
• a scarcity or lack of something.
• "there is a dearth of evidence"
Similar:
lack,
scarcity,
scarceness,
shortage,
shortfall,
want,
deficiency,
insufficiency,
inadequacy,
paucity,
sparseness,
meagreness,
scantiness,
rareness,
infrequency,
uncommonness,
destitution,
privation,
famine,
drought,
poverty,
absence,
non-existence,
exiguity,
exiguousness,
Origin:
Middle English derthe (see dear, -th2).
