scantness

Definitions of scantness

1. noun

   the quality of being meager
   synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness

   types:

   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

   type of:

   deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

   lack of an adequate quantity or number