Spareness

2 definitions found

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

  Spareness \Spare"ness\, n. [Cf. AS. spaernis frugality.]
     The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  spareness
       n : the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
           [syn: {sparseness}, {sparsity}]