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scantness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scantness has 1 sense
- scantness(n = noun.attribute) exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness - 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 scant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
scantness, n.
The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. Barrow. [1913 Webster]
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