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When there's not enough to go around, and everyone notices at once.
means The state of something being in short supply relative to how much people want it.
from From Old French escars, stingy, via Latin excerpere, to pluck out — scarceness is what's left after the picking.
Older siblingScarcity stole its job in formal writing.
Economic engineDrives every price tag you've ever seen.
Suffix logicThe -ness turns scarce into a measurable condition.