The property of being scanty or scattered

Usage examples of sparsity.

She should have known it would be empty just from the sparsity of furniture downstairs.

For a few days, the news media made a fuss of the visitor, but they were badly handicapped by the sparsity of information.

Still she comes, eyes marking an astonished arc at the monkish sparsity, asceticism that registers in her eyes.

The water was deeper and swifter, and from the sparsity of the branches she knew she was nearing the middle.

There had been a sparsity of letters from her brother over the past two years.

There were not many of them, but the sparsity made the paper no easier to read.

Sibilant weavers from the lakes of Banaree, where in springtime it was always milky morning, preferred calm and sparsity and empty spaces.

No monkish sparsity of furniture here these rooms were lavishly furnished and decorated.

But the sparsity of passengers suited his plans-a hundred hostages, easier to control.

The ignorance and conservatism of the peasantry, the habits engendered by widespread insecurity and the fear of official rapacity under Turkish rule, insufficiency of communications, want of capital, and in some districts sparsity of population, have all tended to retard the development of this most important industry.