Contextualizebeta

scantness

noun

Etymology

From scant + -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 scantness — “scant + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being scant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scantness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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