Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Scantness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scantness \Scant"ness\, n.
The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness;
smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. ``Scantness of outward
things.'' --Barrow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
scantness
n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness},
{meagreness}, {poorness}, {scantiness}, {exiguity}]
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