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Meagerness

Alt. of Meagreness

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Narrower term 5

Abstemiousness 76% connected

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than tempera…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Spareness 76% connected

The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sparseness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Thinness 76% connected

The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wateriness 76% connected

The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

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Broader term 3

Deficiency 76% connected

The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Inadequacy 76% connected

The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Insufficiency 76% connected

The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exiguous 74% connected

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Exiguous 74% connected

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

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Synonym 6

Exiguity 92% connected

Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Leanness 92% connected

The condition or quality of being lean.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Meagreness 92% connected

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Poorness 92% connected

The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scantiness 92% connected

Quality or condition of being scanty.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scantness 92% connected

The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.