meagreness

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Noun1.meagreness - the quality of being meagermeagreness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
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
نحاله، هُزال، ضئالَه
hubenostskrovnost
ringhed
Dürftigkeit
maigreur
csekély volta vminek
megurî; rÿrî
scarsit...
skrinnhet
azlıkkıtlık
贫乏贫弱

meagreness

, (US) meagerness
nSpärlichkeit f; (of amount, crowd)Kläglichkeit f; (of meal)Dürftigkeit f, → Kärglichkeit f
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meagre

(American) meager (ˈmiːgə) adjective
poor or not enough. meagre earnings.
ˈmeagrely adverb
ˈmeagreness noun
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