meagerness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

meagerness
    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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Meagerness \Mea"ger*ness\, Meagreness \Mea"gre*ness\, n.
   The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness;
   barrenness.

   Syn: meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity.
        [1913 Webster]

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