exiguousness
State of insufficiency
Exiguousness is the state of being meager, scanty, or inadequate in amount.
The word emphasizes smallness to the point of insufficiency: the exiguousness of his salary made saving impossible.
It appears in formal contexts where *scarcity* or *meagerness* might serve equally well but with less scholarly flair.
Acute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
lack · want · privation · inadequacy · meagerness · undersupply · scantiness · poverty
State of extreme smallness
- tininessState of minimal size
- slightnessLack of substance or bulk
- slendernessNarrow, slight quality
- narrownessConfined width quality
meagerness · puniness · littleness · diminutiveness · paltriness · insignificance · negligibility · modesty
Limit on action
- limitationBound on extent
- confinementState of being restricted
- boundednessState of having limits
- narrownessConfined width quality
circumscription · contraction · crampedness · tightness · compression · constriction · enclosure · restraint
dearth
Acute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
deficiency · lack · want · privation · inadequacy · meagerness · undersupply · scantiness · poverty · depletion
minuteness
State of extreme smallness
- tininessState of minimal size
- slightnessLack of substance or bulk
- slendernessNarrow, slight quality
narrowness · meagerness · puniness · littleness · diminutiveness · paltriness · insignificance · negligibility · modesty · scantness
restriction
Limit on action
- limitationBound on extent
- confinementState of being restricted
- boundednessState of having limits
narrowness · circumscription · contraction · crampedness · tightness · compression · constriction · enclosure · restraint · curtailment
exiguousnessabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · copiousness · profusion · plentifulness · amplitude
exiguousnessadequacy
Being barely acceptable
sufficiency · enough · fullness · satisfactoriness · competence