Scantiness \Scant"i*ness\, n.
Quality or condition of being scanty.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scantiness
n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness,
meagreness, poorness, scantness, exiguity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "scantiness":
Lenten fare, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness,
dearth, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, delicacy, diminutiveness,
exiguity, exiguousness, fewness, inadequacy, inconsequentiality,
inconsiderableness, infrequency, insignificance, insufficiency,
jejuneness, jejunity, lack, leanness, littleness, meagerness,
meanness, minuteness, miserliness, moderateness, narrowness,
niggardliness, paltriness, parsimony, paucity, pettiness,
picayunishness, pokiness, poverty, puniness, rareness, rarity,
restrictedness, scant sufficiency, scantness, scarceness, scarcity,
scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortage, shortness, skimpiness,
slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness,
spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness,
tightness, tininess, triviality, uncommonness, underage, undersize,
unimportance
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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