noun
1. 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, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness, ↑exiguity
• Derivationally related forms:
↑exiguous (for: ↑exiguity), ↑scant (for: ↑scantness), ↑scanty (for: ↑scantiness), ↑poor (for: ↑poorness), ↑lean, ↑meagre (for: ↑meagreness), ↑meager (for: ↑meagerness)
• Hypernyms: ↑insufficiency, ↑inadequacy, ↑deficiency
• Hyponyms: ↑wateriness, ↑abstemiousness, ↑sparseness, ↑spareness, ↑sparsity, ↑thinness
2. the property of having little body fat
• Ant: ↑fatness
• Hypernyms: ↑bodily property
• Hyponyms:
↑skinniness, ↑scrawniness, ↑bonyness, ↑boniness, ↑emaciation, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration, ↑slenderness, ↑slightness, ↑slimness, ↑wiriness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.