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scantiness

scantiness noun: the quality of being scanty.

Noun

scantiness (countable and uncountable, plural scantinesses)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being scanty.
    Synonyms:
    fewness
  2. (countable) The result or product of being scanty.

scantiness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

scantiness in Tamil

அரசப்புரசல், இட்டிது, கம்மி, தட்டுத்தடவல், தட்டல்தடவல், பூச்சியம்

scantiness in Urdu

فقدان, کمی, قلت

scantiness in Bengali

scantiness, smallness
মন্দতা mondota

Synonyms of scantiness

Forms of scantiness

pluralscantinesses

Origin of scantiness

From scanty + -ness.

Questions about scantiness

What does scantiness mean?
Scantiness means the quality of being scanty.
What is scantiness in Tamil?
Scantiness in Tamil is அரசப்புரசல், இட்டிது, கம்மி. See Scantiness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scantiness?
Scantiness is a noun.
What is the plural of scantiness?
The plural of scantiness is scantinesses.

Words near scantiness in the dictionary

  1. scanties
  2. scantiest
  3. scantily
  4. scantily clad
  5. scantily-clad
  6. scantiness
  7. scantinesses
  8. scanting
  9. scantity
  10. scantle
  11. Scantlebury

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scantiness (page history and authors); scantiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scantiness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); মন্দতা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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