English > exiguity: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The quality of being meager. |
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| Example | "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot |
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| Synonyms | meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| Narrower | abstemiousness | restricted to bare necessities |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | escasez, exigüidad, poquedad |
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| Adjectives | exiguous | extremely scanty |
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