Associations to the word «Scantness»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

SCANTNESS, noun. The property of being scant.

Dictionary definition

SCANTNESS, noun. The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne