scantiness

Other forms of scantiness

plural

scantinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scantiness

What does scantiness mean?

scantiness means "the quality of being meager".

How many syllables are in scantiness?

scantiness has 3 syllables: scan-ti-ness. The stress falls on "scan". In IPA it is /ˈskæntinəs/.

What is another word for scantiness?

Close synonyms include meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scantiness a common word?

scantiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.