SPARSENESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

Synonyms:

spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sparseness" is a kind of...):

exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)

Derivation:

sparse (not dense)

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