Meaning of EXIGUITY
| Pronunciation: | | `eksu'gyooitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot |
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| | Synonyms: | | meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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| | See Also: | | deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, spareness, sparseness, sparsity | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex`i*gu"i*ty\, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small:
cf. F. exiguit['e].]
Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] --Boyle.
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| | Related Terms: | | airiness, airy texture, attenuation, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, ethereality, exiguousness, exility, fewness, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness, gossameriness, gracility, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, infrequency, insignificance, insubstantiality, insufficiency, jejuneness, jejunity, laciness, leanness, Lenten fare, lightness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, mistiness, moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, paperiness, parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness, rarity, restrictedness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, subtility, tenuity, thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, undersize, unimportance, vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness |
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