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scantness

DEFINITIONS OF: scantness

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n the quality of being meager

Synonyms:
exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness
Types:
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
Type of:
deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
lack of an adequate quantity or number
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