Exiguity

Quick meaning: Exiguity is a noun meaning The quality of being meagre or scanty.

Meaning

The quality of being meagre or scanty.

Example Sentences

We have yet to treat the exiguity of the accounting framework and this exiguity draws away the interest to any empirical utilisation.

However, despite its exiguity, the vicarage did maintain an independent existence as a benefice, and the College continued to make presentations to the bishop of Worcester.

The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.

Of the nature of Mr. Knott himself Watt remained in particular ignorance. Of the many excellent reasons for this, two seemed to Watt to merit mention: on the one hand the exiguity of the material propounded to his senses, and on the other the decay of these.

Word Forms

• exiguities

Synonyms for exiguity

Depending on context, synonyms include exiguousness, meagreness, scantiness, poorness, meagerness, scantness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scantness, scantiness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, exiguousness.

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