scarsnesseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From scars (“scarce, stingy”) +‎ -nesse (“-ness”); first attested in c. 1340.

発音

• IPA: /ˈskaːrsnɛs(ə)/, /ˈskarsnɛs(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈskaːrnɛs(ə)/, /ˈskarnɛs(ə)/ (with simplification of /rsn/)

名詞

scarsnesse (uncountable)

1. Scarcity, dearth; the state of being insufficient:

   Synonym: scarsite

2. Rarity, uncommonness; the state of being rare:

   Synonym: scarsite

   1. Paucity, scantiness; the state of being few.
3. Stinginess, frugality; lack of generosity.

   Synonym: scarsite

4. Temperance or moderation (in food or drink)

   Synonym: scarsite

派生した語

• English: scarceness
• Middle Scots: scarcenes, scarsnes

参照

• “scā̆rsnes(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “scarceness, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “scarsnes, scaircenes, skairnes, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.