The condition of being scant or insufficient in quantity.

Sparingness, frugality; inadequacy, smallness.

figurative. Meagreness; slightness, slenderness, weakness, poverty.

The quality or fact of being scanty.

Destitution, scantiness; baldness. literal and figurative.

figurative. Unproductiveness; hence, poverty of supply, lack of fullness or copiousness, bareness, scantiness, meagreness, poverty.

The quality or condition of being exiguous; smallness in size or quantity; paucity of numbers; littleness, scantiness, scarcity.

The condition or quality of being lean; thinness; meagreness; poverty (of land); barrenness; etc.

Scantiness; lack of fullness or elaboration; poorness of quality.

figurative. Deficiency, poverty, meagreness, feebleness; lack of depth or fullness.

Deficiency of (physical) substance; thinness, meagreness, attenuation.

Thinness, leanness. Also figurative.

Scantiness, small or limited amount of income, means, etc. Now rare.

The quality of being strait, in various senses. Scantiness, limited amount. Obsolete.

The quality of being flimsy.

The state or quality of being threadbare.

Deficiency in some good constituent; thinness, scantiness, insufficiency; unproductiveness; leanness or lack of vigour due to undernourishment.

The quality of being skimpy.

in same sense.