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Princeton's WordNet

  1. meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguitynoun

    the quality of being meager

    "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

Wiktionary

  1. exiguitynoun

    The quality of being meagre or scanty

  2. Etymology: Derived from exiguous.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Exiguitynoun

    Smallness; diminitiveness; slenderness.

    Etymology: exiguitas, Latin.

    The exiguity and shape of the extant particles is now supposed. Robert Boyle, on Colours.

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  1. exiguity

    Exiguity refers to the state or quality of being scanty, meagre, or small in amount, number, or extent. It often implies insufficiency or inadequacy.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Exiguitynoun

    scantiness; smallness; thinness

  2. Etymology: [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguit.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of exiguity in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of exiguity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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