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[syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Exiguity \Ex`i*gu"i*ty\, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small:
cf. F. exiguit['e].]
Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
exiguity
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]