meagerness

Definitions of meagerness
  1. noun
    the quality of being meager
    synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
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    types:
    wateriness
    meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
    abstemiousness
    restricted to bare necessities
    spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness
    the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
    type of:
    deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
    lack of an adequate quantity or number
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