| Scantiness (n.) Quality or condition of being scanty. Thesaurus Entries Lenten fare, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, dearth, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, delicacy, diminutiveness, exiguity, exiguousness, fewness, inadequacy, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, infrequency, insignificance, insufficiency, jejuneness, jejunity, lack, leanness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, poverty, puniness, rareness, rarity, restrictedness, scant sufficiency, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortage, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, uncommonness, underage, undersize, unimportance |