scantiness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English scanty

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English scantiness

From scanty + -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

scantiness (countable and uncountable, plural scantinesses)

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

Synonyms

• (quality of being scanty): See Thesaurus:fewness
• (product of being scanty): dearth, meagerness, scarcity; see also Thesaurus:lack

Translations

quality of being scanty

• Latin: exiguitās f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: قلت (kıllet)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “scantiness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “scantiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.