scantness

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noun

the quality of being meager
- "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
• Syn:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, exiguity
• Derivationally related forms:
exiguous (for: exiguity), scant, scanty (for: scantiness), poor (for: poorness), lean (for: leanness), meagre (for: meagreness), meager (for: meagerness)
• Hypernyms:
insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
• Hyponyms:
wateriness, abstemiousness, sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness