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Noun: spareness  spehr-nus
  1. The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
    "The spareness of trees in the desert landscape was striking";
    - sparseness, sparsity, thinness
     
  2. 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