Scant·ness, n. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. “Scantness of outward things.”
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  scantness
       n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
           would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness,
            meagreness, poorness, scantiness, exiguity]