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Noun: scantiness  skan-tee-nus
  1. The quality of being meagre
    - meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], leanness, poorness, scantness, exiguity

Derived forms: scantinesses

See also: scanty

Type of: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

Nearest

Scandinavian nation
Scandinavian Peninsula
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Scaphiopus
Scaphiopus bombifrons
Scaphiopus hammondii