English > scantness: 1 sense > noun 1, attributeMeaning | The quality of being meager. |
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Synonyms | meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, exiguity |
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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 | scant | less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so |
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