meagerness

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meagerness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

meagerness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  meagerness
      n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
           would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn:
           meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness,
           scantiness, scantness, exiguity]