dearth

You might replace it with "lack", "dearth", or "paucity".

There's certainly no dearth of torrent clients for Linux.

There is no dearth of talented and well meaning people in India that cannot tackle these issues.

"I very much doubt the dearth of women in technology is because men are sexual predators".

Seeing so much stuff about Haskell lately, but there seems to be a curious dearth of actual software written in it, if it's so great.

I've been in Australia for nearly a year now, and the dearth of movies/videos available to buy/rent here is astounding.

The reason for the dearth of older hackers is the same reason there are few people running marathons at age 60 or 70: As we age, our bodies and minds degrade.

"The reason for the dearth of older hackers is the same reason there are few people running marathons at age 60 or 70: As we age, our bodies and minds degrade.

There's a glut of skilled writers willing to work for free and a dearth of people willing to pay for journalism, either through subscriptions or advertising.

The only good thing about dishonesty of this sort of is the amusingly ironic dearth of self-awareness that it also represents.

With a dearth of engineering talent and shrinking product cycles, Cisco realized that it couldn't build everything it needed inside the company.

Yet the rarely questioned assertion that computer software is special in some way has created a dearth of comparative studies that would likely be valuable from both a theoretical standpoint as well as a practical policy standpoint.

Every civil liberties story ever posted to HN has been accompanied by that justification, and, were it to be taken seriously, there would be nothing but social justice stories on HN, there being no dearth of important social justice stories to find on any given day.