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Noun: meagreness  mee-gu(r)-nus
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: meagerness)
  1. The quality of being meagre
    "The meagreness of the harvest worried the farmers";
    - meagerness [N. Amer], leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, skimpiness

Type of: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

Encyclopedia: Meagreness