scantness 1
noundomain: property
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
the quality of being meager
Examples
- 1.an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes-George Eliot
Hypernym
insufficiency 3
noun
lack of an adequate quantity or number
EnglishDerivationally related form
scant(p) 1
adjective
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Hyponym
wateriness 2
noun
meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
abstemiousness 1
noun
restricted to bare necessities
sparseness 1
noun
the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
thinness 6
noun
The property of lacking substance or strength.
