Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exiguity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Exiguity \Ex`i*gu"i*ty\, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small:
cf. F. exiguit['e].]
Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] --Boyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
exiguity
n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness},
{meagreness}, {poorness}, {scantiness}, {scantness}]
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