Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scantness

1 sense of scantness

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")