scantiness

From scanty +‎ -ness.

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scantiness (countable and uncountable, plural scantinesses)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being scanty.
2. (countable) The result or product of being scanty.

• (quality of being scanty): See Thesaurus:fewness
• (product of being scanty): dearth, meagerness, scarcity; see also Thesaurus:lack

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “scantiness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “scantiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.