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Shortness vs Shortage - What's the difference?

shortness | shortage |

As nouns the difference between shortness and shortage

is that shortness is the property of being short, of being small of stature or brief while shortage is a lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.

shortness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief.
    • the shortness of a stubby pencil
    the patient's shortness of breath
  • (countable) The result or product of being short.

    • Derived terms

    * shortness of breath

    shortage

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia shortage) (en noun)
  • A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , 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