Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sparseness
1 sense of sparseness
Sense 1
sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness -- (the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness)
=> 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)