| NOUN | attribute | exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness | the quality of being meager |
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| Meaning | The quality of being meager. | |
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| Example | "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot | |
| Synonyms | meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness | |
| Narrower | abstemiousness | restricted to bare necessities |
| sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness | The property of being scanty or scattered | |
| wateriness | meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) | |
| Broader | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
| Spanish | escasez, exigüidad, poquedad | |
| Adjectives | exiguous | extremely scanty |
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