exiguity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being meager
    scantiness; leanness; meagreness; scantness; poorness; meagerness.
    • an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

WordNet

Ex`i*gu"i*ty noun
Etymology
L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguité.
Definitions
  1. Scantiness; smallness; thinness. R. Boyle.

Webster 1913