Shortage vs Dearth - What's the difference?
shortage | dearth |
A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
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, title= (rfc-sense) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
* 1608 , William Shakespeare, King Lear :
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(obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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Dearth is a synonym of shortage.
As nouns the difference between shortage and dearth
is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while dearth is a period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.shortage
English
Noun
(wikipedia shortage) (en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
Antonyms
* glut * mountain (as in butter mountain)See also
* drought * famine * ration * rationingdearth
English
Noun
(en noun)- I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth , dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.