Noun: scantiness skan-tee-nus
- The quality of being meagre
"The scantiness of the harvest worried the farmers";
- meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], leanness, poorness, scantness, exiguity, skimpiness
- Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing
"She cared only for brightness of colour, ease of fit, and a brevity and scantiness of skirt absolutely astounding in these days of crinolines and trains.";
- skimpiness
Type of: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, shortness