Quantity
Synonyms for scarcity
Synonyms for scarcity: shortage and paucity. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for scarcity
Interchangeable with scarcity in this sense
Audited under scarcity's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one scarcity carries in that sense.
- shortagenoun, in the sense "a state of insufficient quantity or supply"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name scarcity as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- paucitypaucity is a noun in the sense "the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities"
one of these comes from scarcity's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a state of insufficient quantity or supply
Water scarcity forced the village to restrict each household to two buckets a day during the drought.
The true synonym
shortage
Same sentence, swapped: Water shortage forced the village to restrict each household to two buckets a day during the drought.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot scarcity is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- abundance
- contamination
- flooding
Where scarcity turns up in the game
scarcity is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where scarcity is the trap
- excessnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is overabundance, in the sense "an amount of something beyond what is needed or usual", with scarcity sitting one tile away.
- destitutionnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is penury, in the sense "a state of extreme poverty, lacking basic necessities", and scarcity is on the board beside it.
Play scarcity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so scarcity reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other quantity words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. scarcity carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.