deficiency vs scarceness

deficiency and scarceness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deficiency	Yes	No	No	No
scarceness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scarceness is a hyponym of deficiency; that is, scarceness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than deficiency:

deficiency: lack of an adequate quantity or number
scarceness: a small and inadequate amount

Other hyponyms of deficiency include exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, deficit, shortage, shortfall, scarcity, slenderness, drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean.

deficiency (noun)	scarceness (noun)
lack of an adequate quantity or number	a small and inadequate amount
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

deficiency vs scarceness

deficiency and scarceness both are nouns.

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