“"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot”
- Synonyms:
- leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
- Types:
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wateriness
meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
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abstemiousness
restricted to bare necessities
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spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness
the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
- Type of:
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deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
lack of an adequate quantity or number
