SCANTINESS

meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity

(noun) the quality of being meager; “an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes”-George Eliot

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

scantiness (countable and uncountable, plural scantinesses)

(uncountable) The quality of being scanty.

(countable) The result or product of being scanty.

Synonyms

• (quality of being scanty): See fewness

• (product of being scanty): dearth, meagerness, scarcity; see also lack

Source: Wiktionary


Scant"i*ness, n.

Definition: Quality condition of being scanty.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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