Scantness

2 definitions found

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

  Scantness \Scant"ness\, n.
     The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness;
     smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward
     things." --Barrow.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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