scantiness

scant·y  (sknt)

adj. scant·i·er, scant·i·est

1. Barely sufficient or adequate.

2. Insufficient, as in extent or degree.

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scanti·ly adv.

scanti·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

scantiness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, 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

Translations

scantiness [ˈskæntɪnɪs] N → escasez f, insuficiencia f

scantiness, scantness

n (of amount, supply, information, knowledge) → Spärlichkeit f, → Dürftigkeit f; (of piece of clothing) → Knappheit f

scantiness [ˈskæntɪnɪs] n → scarsezza
the scantiness of her clothes → i suoi abiti succinti

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scantiness [ˈskæntɪnɪs] n → scarsezza
the scantiness of her clothes → i suoi abiti succinti