资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scantness \Scant"ness\, n.
   The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness;
   smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. ``Scantness of outward
   things.'' --Barrow.

资料来源 : WordNet®

scantness
     n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
         would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness},
          {meagreness}, {poorness}, {scantiness}, {exiguity}]