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SCANTINESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The quality of being meagerplay

Example:

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

Synonyms:

exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("scantiness" is a kind of...):

deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scantiness"):

wateriness (meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food))

abstemiousness (restricted to bare necessities)

spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness (the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness)

Derivation:

scanty (lacking in magnitude or quantity)

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