'Scantness' definitions:
Definition of 'scantness'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
Definition of 'Scantness'
From: GCIDE
- Scantness \Scant"ness\, n. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." --Barrow. [1913 Webster]