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n. - The quality of being meager.

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Usage examples (24)
  • An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes-George Eliot
  • Adjective : exiguous income
  • The more glaring the contrast through the exiguity of the Capitalist class and its proportionately large individual holdings of the means of production the stronger this...
  • If we look simply at the magnitude of the results obtained, compared with the exiguity of the resources at command, -- if we remember that out of the small Kingdom of...
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