Noun: spareness spehr-nus
- The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
"The spareness of trees in the desert landscape was striking";
- sparseness, sparsity, thinness
- The property of having little body fat
"The athlete's spareness was a result of rigorous training and diet";
- leanness, thinness
Type of: bodily property, exiguity, leanness, meagerness [N. Amer], meagreness [Brit, Cdn], poorness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness