All exiguity synonyms

noun exiguity

• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
• poverty — the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
• shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
• abridgement — a shortened or condensed form of a book, speech, etc., that still retains the basic contents: an abridgment of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
• curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• depletion — a depleting or being depleted
• deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
• destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• exigency — An urgent need or demand.
• inferiority — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• meagerness — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• retrenchment — the act of retrenching; a cutting down or off, as by the reduction of expenses.
• scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
• shortness — having little length; not long.
• shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
• shrinking — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
• stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
• debt — A debt is a sum of money that you owe someone.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• famine — extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• starvation — the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
• underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
• abjection — an abject state or condition
• aridity — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
• barrenness — not producing or incapable of producing offspring; sterile: a barren woman.
• beggary — extreme poverty or need