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Shortage vs Rarity - What's the difference?

shortage | rarity |

As nouns the difference between shortage and rarity

is that shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount while rarity is a measure of the scarcity of an object.

shortage

English

Noun

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

    Related terms

    * outage

    See also

    * drought * famine * ration * rationing

    rarity

    English

    Noun

    (rarities)
  • A measure of the scarcity of an object.
  • (chemistry, of a gas) Thinness; the property of having low density
  • *
  • (senseid)A rare object.
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    Synonyms

    * rareness

    Related terms

    * rare * rarely

    References

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