scantness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

scantness
    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

Scantness \Scant"ness\, n.
   The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness;
   smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward
   things." --Barrow.
   [1913 Webster]

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