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Shortage vs Meanness - What's the difference?

shortage | meanness |

As nouns the difference between shortage and meanness

is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while meanness is the condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

shortage

English

Noun

(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)
  • A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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    Antonyms

    * glut * mountain (as in butter mountain)

    Related terms

    * outage

    See also

    * drought * famine * ration * rationing

    meanness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * meaness

    Noun

    (es)
  • (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being ; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
    • This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison
  • A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness .

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