Meaning of SCANTINESS
| Pronunciation: | | sk'anteenus
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot |
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| | Synonyms: | | exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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| | See Also: | | deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, spareness, sparseness, sparsity | |
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| | Definition: | | \Scant"i*ness\, n.
Quality or condition of being scanty.
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