Exiguity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exiguity \Ex`i*gu"i*ty\, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small:
     cf. F. exiguit['e].]
     Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] --Boyle.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  exiguity
       n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
           would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness},
            {meagreness}, {poorness}, {scantiness}, {scantness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "exiguity":
     Lenten fare, airiness, airy texture, attenuation, austerity,
     chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, delicacy, diaphanousness,
     dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, ethereality, exiguousness,
     exility, fewness, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness,
     gossameriness, gracility, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness,
     infrequency, insignificance, insubstantiality, insufficiency,
     jejuneness, jejunity, laciness, leanness, lightness, littleness,
     meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, mistiness,
     moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, paperiness,
     parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness,
     rarity, restrictedness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity,
     scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness,
     slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness,
     sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, subtility, tenuity,
     thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, undersize, unimportance,
     vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness