meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
(noun) the quality of being meager; âan exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capesâ-George Eliot
Source: WordNet® 3.1
exiguity (usually uncountable, plural exiguities)
The quality of being meagre or scanty.
Synonyms: exiguousness, meagreness, scantiness
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`i*gu"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguité.]
Definition: Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; ââI canât tell you when the manager will arrive,â he said rather uninformativelyâ
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.