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scant·ness

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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. scantnessnoun

    The property of being scant.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Scantnessnoun

    Narrowness; meanness; smallness.

    Etymology: from scant.

    He was a man of a fierce spirit, and of no evil disposition, saving that he thought scantness of estate too great an evil. John Hayward.

    Did we but compare the miserable scantness of our capacities with the vast profundity of things, truth and modesty would teach us wary language. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

ChatGPT

  1. scantness

    Scantness refers to the state or quality of being small or inadequate in amount, quantity, or size. It represents insufficiency or sparseness.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scantnessnoun

    the quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scantness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scantness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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