scantiness (n.)
- austerity
- daintiness
- dearth
- defalcation
- deficiency
- deficit
- delicacy
- diminutiveness
- exiguity
- fewness
- inadequacy
- infrequency
- insignificance
- insufficiency
- jejuneness
- jejunity
- lack
- leanness
- littleness
- meagerness
- meanness
- minuteness
- miserliness
- moderateness
- narrowness
- niggardliness
- paltriness
- parsimony
- paucity
- pettiness
- poverty
- puniness
- rareness
- rarity
- scantness
- scarceness
- scarcity
- scrawniness
- shortage
- shortness
- slenderness
- slightness
- slimness
- smallness
- spareness
- sparseness
- sparsity
- stinginess
- stringency
- thinness
- tightness
- tininess
- triviality
- uncommonness
- underage
- unimportance