Scarceness /(?)/

Scarce·ness

Scarceness

n.
  1. The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties.
    A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples.
    Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity.
    — Rambler.
    The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.
    — Collier.