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meagerness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun meagerness has 1 sense
- meagerness(n = noun.attribute) exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes" is a kind of deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
has particulars: wateriness, abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness
Derived form adjective meager1
CIDE DICTIONARY
meagerness, n.
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness. [1913 Webster]
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