escassez

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From escasso +‎ -ez. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧cas‧sez === Noun === escassez f (plural escassezes) scarcity, dearth, shortage ==== Quotations ==== For quotations using this term, see Citations:escassez. === Further reading === “escassez”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “escassez”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026