Definition of Scantiness

1. Noun. The quality of being meager. "An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"


Definition of Scantiness

1. n. Quality or condition of being scanty.

Definition of Scantiness

1. Noun. The quality of being scanty. ¹

2. Noun. The result or product of being scanty. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scantiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scantiness

scansion
scansions
scanslation
scansores
scansorial
scant
scant(p)
scanted
scanter
scantest
scantier
scanties
scantiest
scantily
scantily clad
scantiness (current term)
scantinesses
scanting
scantity
scantle
scantled
scantles
scantlet
scantlets
scantling
scantlings
scantly
scantness
scantnesses
scantron

Literary usage of Scantiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1869)
"Working women have scantiness of milk, not only in consequence of hardships ... Age is also a cause of scantiness of milk. Mothers at the age of forty years ..."

2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1877)
"scantiness of the English forces in front of their centre. The mist. There came one Russian column moving up on the enemy's right which approached the crest ..."

3. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1876)
"scantiness of Milk; its Causes and Treatment. Though the amount of breast-milk which the infant requires is less than was estimated by Gumming, ..."

4. Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1876)
"scantiness of Milk; its Causes and Treatment. Though the amount of breast-milk which the infant requires is less than was estimated by Gumming, ..."

5. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"... forth those few and barren facts which the Augustan age could discover to his search, unconsciously indicates the chief cause of their scantiness. ..."

6. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"... forth those few and barren facts which the Augustan age could discover to his search, unconsciously indicates the chief cause of their scantiness. ..."

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