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Definition of Scantiness
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 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
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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