exiguousness
41paucity — n scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, scantiness; exiguousness, slenderness, thinness, leanness, meagerness; shortage, small number, small amount, paltriness, poverty, poorness; lack, dearth, want, need, crying need; insufficiency, inadequacy,… …
42exiguous — /əgˈzɪgjuəs / (say uhg zigyoohuhs), /ɛg / (say eg ) adjective scanty; small; slender. {Latin exiguus} –exiguity /ɛksəˈgjuəti/ (say eksuh gyoohuhtee), exiguousness, noun –exiguously, adverb …
43dearth — [n] insufficiency, scarcity absence, default, defect, deficiency, exiguousness, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, rareness, scantiness, scantness, shortage, slim pickings*, sparsity,… …
44want — [n1] desire appetite, craving, demand, fancy, hankering, hunger, longing, necessity, need, requirement, thirst, wish, yearning, yen; concept 20 Ant. disinterest, dislike, hate want [n2] lack, need absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency,… …
45exiguous — adj. scanty, small. Derivatives: exiguity n. exiguously adv. exiguousness n. Etymology: L exiguus scanty f. exigere weigh exactly: see EXACT …
