spareness
Nothing to excess
Spareness is the quality of being spare—lean, minimal, unadorned.
It can describe physical leanness: the spareness of his frame.
More often it applies to style or design: the spareness of her prose, the spareness of the room's décor.
Spareness suggests deliberate restraint rather than poverty—what remains serves its purpose without excess.
Deficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- deficitAmount still owed
lack · want · privation · meagerness · leanness · poverty · rarity · depletion
Economical resource management
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- restraintControl over impulses
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
stoicism · temperance · discipline · severity · rigor · monasticism · sobriety · thrift
Meditative Buddhist school
- declutterRemove unnecessary items
- streamlinedMade smooth and efficient
- functionalAble to operate correctly
- essentialsIndispensable items or elements
clean · uncluttered · curated · understated · elegance · restraint · simplicity · reduction
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- paucityInsufficiency of amount
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
deficit · lack · want · privation · meagerness · leanness · poverty · rarity · depletion · thinness
stripped
Had coverings removed
bleak · gaunt · raw · skeletal · unadorned · empty · desolate · barren · bony · angular
frugality
Economical resource management
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- restraintControl over impulses
abstinence · stoicism · temperance · discipline · severity · rigor · monasticism · sobriety · thrift · parsimony
Zen
Meditative Buddhist school
- declutterRemove unnecessary items
- streamlinedMade smooth and efficient
- functionalAble to operate correctly
essentials · clean · uncluttered · curated · understated · elegance · restraint · simplicity · reduction · purity
- brevitybrevity, concise, succinct, terse, pithy
- plainnesssimplicity, bareness, starkness, unadorned, minimalism
- simple livingsimple living, frugality, minimalism, decluttering, back-to-the-land
- self-disciplineself-discipline, self-control, self-regulation, restraint, impulse control
- emptinessemptiness, void, vacuum, nothingness, blank
sparenessabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · profusion · copiousness · plentifulness · excess
sparenessfatness
Excess body bulk
corpulence · fleshiness · plumpness · stoutness · portliness
sparenessornateness
Excessive embellishment quality
elaborateness · extravagance · fussiness · decorativeness · embellishment
spare, sparse, sparing, spared, unsparing, spares, sparingly, sparsity, sparer