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scantiness

noun

Etymology

From scanty + -ness.

  1. inherited from scanten
  2. derived from *(s)ḱem-✻ — “mutilated, hornless”
  3. derived from *skammaz✻ — “short”
  4. derived from skamt
  5. inherited from scant
  6. suffixed as scanty — “scant + y”
  7. suffixed as scantiness — “scanty + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being scanty.

  2. The result or product of being scanty.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA