1.
[syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Meagerness \Mea"ger*ness\, Meagreness \Mea"gre*ness\, n.
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness;
barrenness.
Syn: meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
meagerness
n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn:
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness,
scantiness, scantness, exiguity]