SCANTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scantness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being meager

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCANTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being meager

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

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

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

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

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)

Derivation:

scant (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so)