scantness

2 definitions found

scantness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

scantness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  scantness
      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]