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