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the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage.
Rick and Morty S4 Ep02 :

Your love is defined by scarcity

Meaning by finding the right one among billions
Scarcity by Espada.xx March 20, 2020

Post-scarcity 

Referring to a theoretical point in time past resource scarcity, society, or economical system in which there is no shortage of most goods, and labour, for the most part, is not placed on humans. The idea stems from futurological concepts of a society that has advanced to such a point that most resources are not limited, and can be produced, oftentimes by robots or narrow AI, or other artificial mechanisms. In this society, there would be no conflicts over resources, and society would have reached its maximum efficiency.
A post-scarcity society, one where do not worry about limited resources.

Scarcity Rationalization

The ideological claim that resources are inherently and permanently insufficient to meet human needs, used to justify inequality, hoarding, and the exclusion of certain groups from access. It presents a contingent political choice—who gets what—as an immutable law of nature, framing greed as prudence and sharing as naive.
Example: "There just isn't enough to go around," said by a wealthy nation debating healthcare or housing, while immense wealth concentrates at the top. This scarcity rationalization masks artificial, politically-engineered scarcity (e.g., vacant investment properties, drug patents) to naturalize deprivation and defeat demands for redistribution.

Theory of Constructed Scarcity

The principle that many situations of "scarcity"—not having enough of something—are man-made, not natural. It happens when access to an abundant or sufficiently producible resource is artificially restricted through control, hoarding, legal barriers, or designed obsolescence. The scarcity of the resource is a constructed condition to drive up its value, create competition, and maintain power for those who control the supply. Diamonds aren't rare; their scarcity is carefully constructed by cartels.
Example: "The concert sold out in minutes, but suddenly hundreds of tickets appeared on resale sites at 5x the price. That's the Theory of Constructed Scarcity. The digital tickets weren't physically scarce; their availability was artificially constricted by bots and platform rules to create a desperate market. The 'shortage' was a profitable fiction built by code and scalpers, not by an actual lack of seats."

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026