exiguity
State of meagerness
Exiguity is the quality of being meager, scanty, or inadequate in amount.
The word is formal and literary, appearing in discussions of insufficient resources or slim quantities: the exiguity of the evidence, the exiguity of his savings.
It emphasizes not just smallness but insufficiency—there isn't enough.
Acute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
lack · want · inadequacy · privation · undersupply · meagerness · scantiness · shortfall
State of extreme smallness
- tininessState of minimal size
- slightnessLack of substance or bulk
- diminutivenessExtreme smallness in size
- meagernessInsufficiency in amount
slenderness · narrowness · thinness · scantness · leanness · spareness · puniness · pettiness
Bound on extent
- restrictionLimit on action
- confinementState of being restricted
- narrownessConfined width quality
- boundednessState of having limits
circumscription · curtailment · restraint · tightness · compression · contraction · reduction · minimization
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
beggary · impecuniousness · pennilessness · neediness · deprivation · hardship · austerity · privation
dearth
Acute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
deficiency · lack · want · inadequacy · privation · undersupply · meagerness · scantiness · shortfall · rareness
minuteness
State of extreme smallness
- tininessState of minimal size
- slightnessLack of substance or bulk
- diminutivenessExtreme smallness in size
meagerness · slenderness · narrowness · thinness · scantness · leanness · spareness · puniness · pettiness · littleness
limitation
Bound on extent
- restrictionLimit on action
- confinementState of being restricted
- narrownessConfined width quality
boundedness · circumscription · curtailment · restraint · tightness · compression · contraction · reduction · minimization · attenuation
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- impoverishmentState of extreme deprivation
pauperism · beggary · impecuniousness · pennilessness · neediness · deprivation · hardship · austerity · privation · straitened