n.
Quality or condition of being scanty.
scantiness
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noun
- The condition or fact of being deficient: defect, deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, paucity, poverty, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, underage1. See excess/insufficiency/enough.
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the quality of being meager
Synonyms: meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness, exiguity
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