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The quality of being meager
Answer for the clue "The quality of being meager ", 9 letters:
scantness
Word definitions for scantness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being scant.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scantness \Scant"ness\, n. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. ``Scantness of outward things.'' --Barrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from scant (adj.) + -ness . Chaucer uses scantity .
Usage examples of scantness.
Upon the other side, to speak of the horrible disordinate scantness of clothing, as be these cutted slops or hanselines [breeches] , that through their shortness cover not the shameful member of man, to wicked intent alas!