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SCANTINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)