Scantness \Scant"ness\, n.
The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness;
smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward
things." --Barrow.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scantness
n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness,
meagreness, poorness, scantiness, exiguity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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