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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:

Scantiness \Scant"i*ness\, n.
   Quality or condition of being scanty.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scantiness
    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]