meagreness
/ˈmiːɡənəs
/(US meagerness)
noun [mass noun]
Lack of quantity or quality; inadequacy: job satisfaction eclipses the meagreness of income...
- However, the commissioners admitted such compulsion was rarely realistic, considering the meagreness of most women's wages.
- The meagerness of the UK's benefits was never policy.
- He is quite content as the job satisfaction eclipses the meagreness of income.
Synonyms
inadequacy, scantiness, paucity, paltriness, dearth, limitedness, restrictedness, insufficiency, sparseness, spareness, scarcity, deficiency, slightness, skimpiness, leanness, poorness, poverty, pitifulness, miserliness, puniness, beggarliness
informal measliness, stinginess
rare exiguity