Scarcity vs Flaw - What's the difference?
scarcity | flaw |
(uncountable) the condition of something being scarce or deficient
* Rambler
(countable) an inadequate amount of something; a shortage
(obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
(obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
* Shakespeare
A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
* South
A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
* Milton
* Tennyson
A storm of short duration.
A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between scarcity and flaw
is that scarcity is (uncountable) the condition of something being scarce or deficient while flaw is (obsolete) a flake, fragment, or shiver or flaw can be a sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.As a verb flaw is
to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.scarcity
English
(wikipedia scarcity)Noun
- Praise owes its value to its scarcity .
- a scarcity of grain
Synonyms
* dearth * deficiency * lack * infrequency * penury * rareness * rarity * wantAntonyms
* abundance * copiousnessflaw
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) flawe, .Noun
(en noun)- There is a flaw in that knife.
- That vase has a flaw .
- This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .
- Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
- a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* tragic flawEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .
- Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
- And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .