scantiness Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


Scant"i*ness noun
Definitions
  1. Quality condition of being scanty.

Webster 1913