sparsity

Questions about sparsity

What does sparsity mean?

sparsity means "the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness".

How many syllables are in sparsity?

sparsity has 3 syllables: spar-si-ty. The stress falls on "spar".

What is another word for sparsity?

Close synonyms include sparseness, spareness, thinness. 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 sparsity a common word?

sparsity 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.