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SCANTINESS

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• SCANTINESS (noun)
The noun SCANTINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being meager

Familiarity information: SCANTINESS used as a noun is very rare.

• SCANTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being meager

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

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

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

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

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)

"In for a penny, in for a pound."
(English proverb)
"To be poor is not a sin, it's better to avoid it anyway"
(Breton proverb)
"If patience is sour then its result is sweet."
(Arabic proverb)
"After rain comes sunshine"
(Dutch proverb)

Useful links:
deficiency definition
Pronunciation of inadequacy
insufficiency definition
Definition of wateriness
sparsity definition

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