scantiness

scantiness
noun
the quality of being meager
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"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantness, ↑exiguity
Derivationally related forms:
exiguous (for: ↑exiguity), ↑scant (for: ↑scantness), ↑scanty, ↑poor (for: ↑poorness), ↑lean (for: ↑leanness), ↑meagre (for: ↑meagreness), ↑meager (for: ↑meagerness)
Hypernyms: ↑insufficiency, ↑inadequacy, ↑deficiency
Hyponyms: ↑wateriness, ↑abstemiousness, ↑sparseness, ↑spareness, ↑sparsity, ↑thinness

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  • Scantiness — Scant i*ness, n. Quality or condition of being scanty. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • scantiness — index austerity, dearth, deficit, delinquency (shortage), insignificance, insufficiency, need (d …   Law dictionary

  • scantiness — noun see scanty …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • scantiness — See scantily. * * * …   Universalium

  • scantiness — noun a) The quality of being scanty. b) The result or product of being scanty …   Wiktionary

  • scantiness — Synonyms and related words: Lenten fare, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, dearth, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, delicacy, diminutiveness, exiguity, exiguousness, fewness, inadequacy, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • scantiness — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. rareness, insufficiency, shortage, short supply, meagerness, inadequacy, dearth, paucity, need, poverty, sparsity. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency,… …   English dictionary for students

  • scantiness — scant·i·ness || skæntɪnɪs n. lack, state of being in short supply, scarcity …   English contemporary dictionary

  • scantiness — n. Insufficiency, meagreness, narrowness, deficiency, short supply, short measure …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • scantiness — scant·i·ness …   English syllables

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