Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun meagerness
1 sense of meagerness
Sense 1
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity -- (the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot)
=> insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency -- (lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits")