exiguity

exiguity
Synonyms and related words:
Lenten fare, airiness, airy texture, attenuation, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, ethereality, exiguousness, exility, fewness, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness, gossameriness, gracility, inconsequentiality, inconsiderableness, infrequency, insignificance, insubstantiality, insufficiency, jejuneness, jejunity, laciness, leanness, lightness, littleness, meagerness, meanness, minuteness, miserliness, mistiness, moderateness, narrowness, niggardliness, paltriness, paperiness, parsimony, paucity, pettiness, picayunishness, pokiness, puniness, rarity, restrictedness, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shortness, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, stinginess, stringency, subtility, tenuity, thinness, tightness, tininess, triviality, undersize, unimportance, vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness

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  • Exiguity — Ex i*gu i*ty, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguit[ e].] Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • exiguity — index dearth, insufficiency, paucity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • exiguity — 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 • Derivationally relat …   Useful english dictionary

  • exiguity — noun (plural ities) Date: circa 1626 the quality or state of being exiguous ; scantiness …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • exiguity — ex·i·gu·i·ty (ĕk sĭ gyo͞oʹĭ tē) n. The quality or condition of being scanty or meager. * * * …   Universalium

  • exiguity — noun The quality of being meagre or scanty Syn: exiguousness …   Wiktionary

  • exiguity — ex·i·gu·i·ty || ‚eksɪ gjuːətɪ n. scantiness, scarcity; minuteness, smallness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • exiguity — n. Smallness, slenderness, fineness, exility, attenuation, exiguousness …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • exiguity — ex·i·gu·i·ty …   English syllables

  • exiguous — exiguity /ek si gyooh i tee/, exiguousness, n. exiguously, adv. /ig zig yooh euhs, ik sig /, adj. scanty; meager; small; slender: exiguous income. [1645 55; < L exiguus scanty in measure or number, small, equiv. to exig(ere) (see EXIGENT) + uus… …   Universalium

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