SPARSENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sparseness mean? 

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

1. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPARSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness

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

exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)

Derivation:

sparse (not dense)