exiguity

ex·i·gu·i·ty

 (ĕk′sĭ-gyo͞o′ĭ-tē)

n.

The quality or condition of being scanty or meager.

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exiguity

smallness of size. — exiguous, adj.

See also: Size

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

urgenza

exiguity

n (form) → Winzigkeit f; (= meagreness) → Knappheit f

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