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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of being meager;
- Example: "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
[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]