scantness Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


Scant"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." Barrow.

Webster 1913