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ex·i·gu·i·ty (ĕk'sĭ-gyo͞oʹĭ-tē)
n.
The quality or condition of being scanty or meager.
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Exiguity — Ex i*gu i*ty, n. [L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguit[ e].] Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
exiguity — index dearth, insufficiency, paucity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
exiguity — noun the quality of being meager an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes George Eliot • Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness • Derivationally relat … Useful english dictionary
exiguity — noun (plural ities) Date: circa 1626 the quality or state of being exiguous ; scantiness … New Collegiate Dictionary
exiguity — noun The quality of being meagre or scanty Syn: exiguousness … Wiktionary
exiguity — Synonyms and related words: Lenten fare, airiness, airy texture, attenuation, austerity, chinchiness, chintziness, daintiness, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, diminutiveness, ethereality, exiguousness, exility, fewness, fineness … Moby Thesaurus
exiguity — ex·i·gu·i·ty || ‚eksɪ gjuËÉ™tɪ n. scantiness, scarcity; minuteness, smallness … English contemporary dictionary
exiguity — n. Smallness, slenderness, fineness, exility, attenuation, exiguousness … New dictionary of synonyms
exiguity — ex·i·gu·i·ty … English syllables
exiguous — exiguity /ek si gyooh i tee/, exiguousness, n. exiguously, adv. /ig zig yooh euhs, ik sig /, adj. scanty; meager; small; slender: exiguous income. [1645 55; < L exiguus scanty in measure or number, small, equiv. to exig(ere) (see EXIGENT) + uus… … Universalium
