meagerness (n)
meagreness (n)
leanness#1 (n)
poorness#3 (n)
scantiness (n)
scantness (n)
exiguity (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 07
def the quality of being meager
examples an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes George Eliot
Outgoing links
Hypernym insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
Derivationally related form exiguity → exiguous
Derivationally related form scantness → scant(p)
Derivationally related form scantiness → scanty
Derivationally related form poorness → poor
Derivationally related form poorness → poor
Derivationally related form leanness → lean; leanness → lean; leanness → lean
Derivationally related form meagreness → meagre
Derivationally related form meagerness → meager
Hyponym wateriness; abstemiousness; sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness
Incoming links
Derivationally related form meagre → meagreness
Derivationally related form meager → meagerness
Derivationally related form scanty → scantiness
Derivationally related form exiguous → exiguity
Derivationally related form lean → leanness; lean → leanness; lean → leanness
Derivationally related form poor → poorness
Derivationally related form poor → poorness
Derivationally related form scant(p) → scantness
Hyponym insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
Hypernym wateriness; abstemiousness; sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness

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