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    SCANTNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The quality of being meagerplay

    Example:

    an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

    Synonyms:

    exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("scantness" is a kind of...):

    deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scantness"):

    wateriness (meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food))

    abstemiousness (restricted to bare necessities)

    spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness (the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness)

    Derivation:

    scant (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so)

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