Meagerness \Mea"ger*ness\, Meagreness \Mea"gre*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness;
barrenness.
Syn: meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
meagreness
n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness,
poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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