Meagerness

2 definitions found

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

  Meagerness \Mea"ger*ness\, Meagreness \Mea"gre*ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness;
     barrenness.
  
     Syn: meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity.
          [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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