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Definition of Exiguity
1. Noun. The quality of being meager. "An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Specialized synonyms: Wateriness, Abstemiousness, Spareness, Sparseness, Sparsity, Thinness
Derivative terms: Exiguous, Lean, Lean, Lean, Meager, Meagre, Poor, Poor, Scanty, Scant
Definition of Exiguity
1. n. Scantiness; smallness; thinness.
Definition of Exiguity
1. Noun. The quality of being meagre or scanty ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exiguity
1. the state of being exiguous [n -ITIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exiguity
Literary usage of Exiguity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pages from a Private Diary by Henry Charles Beeching (1899)
"Care"; nor does that Fury desert the bicyclist, though forced by the exiguity of
the saddle to shift her position to one or other tyre, where she stands, ..."
2. Homoeopathy: Its Tenets and Tendencies, Theoretical, Theological, and by James Young Simpson (1853)
"... exiguity OF DOSES, ETC. [At their first meeting for the Winter Session 1851-52,
the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh unanimously passed a ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"2. Emergency, crisis, strait, juncture^ conjuncture, quandary, pass, pinch,
nonplus, critical situation, pressing necessity. exiguity, n. ..."
4. The Chhándogya Upanishad of the Sáma Veda: With Extracts from the Commentary by Rājendralāla Mitra, Śaṅkarācārya (1862)
"“That which is Immensity* is felicity, there is no felicity in exiguity; Immensity
alone is felicity; Immensity therefore is worthy of enquiry. ..."
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