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meagreness

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Noun1.meagreness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
exiguity, leanness, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, poorness
inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
wateriness - meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes"
abstemiousness - restricted to bare necessities
spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
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He sees through them, and all that he sees is their frailty, their meagreness, their sordidness, their pitifulness.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagreness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
Fanny's disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt Norris in the meagreness and cheerlessness of her own small house, without reproaching herself for some little want of attention to her when they had been last together; much less could her feelings acquit her of having done and said and thought everything by William that was due to him for a whole fortnight.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
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