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Noun: skimpiness
  1. 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 skimpiness of skirt absolutely astounding in these days of crinolines and trains";
    - scantiness
     
  2. The quality of being meagre
    "The skimpiness of the harvest worried the farmers";
    - meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity

Type of: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, shortness