exiguity

exiguity
    n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
         would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn:
         {meagerness}, {meagreness}, {leanness}, {poorness},
         {scantiness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}]
    

Exiguity \Ex`i*gu"i*ty\, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small:
   cf. F. exiguit['e].]
   Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] --Boyle.
   [1913 Webster]
    

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "exiguity":
      Lenten fare, airiness, airy texture, attenuation, austerity,
      chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, delicacy, diaphanousness,
      dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, ethereality, exiguousness,
      exility, fewness, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness,
      gossameriness, gracility, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness,
      infrequency, insignificance, insubstantiality, insufficiency,
      jejuneness, jejunity, laciness, leanness, lightness, littleness,
      meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, mistiness,
      moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, paperiness,
      parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness,
      rarity, restrictedness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity,
      scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness,
      slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness,
      sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, subtility, tenuity,
      thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, undersize, unimportance,
      vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness