noun
the quality of being meager
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"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
• Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑exiguity
• Derivationally related forms:
↑exiguous (for: ↑exiguity), ↑scant, ↑scanty (for: ↑scantiness), ↑poor (for: ↑poorness), ↑lean (for: ↑leanness), ↑meagre (for: ↑meagreness), ↑meager (for: ↑meagerness)
• Hypernyms: ↑insufficiency, ↑inadequacy, ↑deficiency
• Hyponyms: ↑wateriness, ↑abstemiousness, ↑sparseness, ↑spareness, ↑sparsity, ↑thinness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.