paucity, shortage, lack, scarcity, surfeit, glut, plethora, unavailability, overabundance, abundance, profusion, aplenty, dwindling, slew, influx, undersupply, scarceness, galore, spate, plenty, bereft, smattering, bevy, crunch, exodus, disparity, inadequacy, myriad, falloff, upsurge, oversupply, absence, inaccessibility, awash, preponderance, brain drain, conundrum, insufficiency, shortcoming, some, oodles, shrinking, mismatch, dropoff, maldistribution, scads, abound, handful, slackening, devoid, availability, none, shortfalls, predominance, lots, decline, lacuna, reluctance, quandary, mushrooming, constraints, deluge, alack, inconsistency, undercapitalization, unfamiliarity, stagnancy, deficiency, dichotomy, paradox, chockablock, incongruity, superabundance, feminisation, proliferation, disinterest, resurgence, misallocation, flurry, apathy, inability, woes, malaise, beleaguering, ubiquitousness, multiplicity, boatload, clamor, crowdedness, constrictions, plenitude, problem, unevenness, cornucopia, stagnation, inexperience, dilemma, mishmash, underuse, superfluity, vagaries, rarity, want, destitution, privation, confusion, misapprehension, retrogression, stringency, debility, diminution, dryness, emaciation, incapacity

deficiency, lack, scarceness, scarcity, want

famine, paucity, shortage