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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
     
  2. Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing.
    - skimpiness

Type of: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, shortness

Nearest

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