noun. Scanty character or condition; lack of amplitude, greatness, or abundance; insufficiency.

noun. Quality or condition of being scanty.

noun. The quality of being scanty.

noun. The result or product of being scanty.

noun. the quality of being meager

"I wonder if the planned demolition of much of Coney Island's amusement area (they're putting up condominiums) means that some year soon the City will attack the morals at the mermaid parade and impose some regulation on costumes (or scantiness thereof)."

deficiency  inadequacy  insufficiency  

abstemiousness  spareness  sparseness  sparsity  thinness  

absenteeism  by-name  closings  corker  counteraction  

Lenten fare  austerity  chinchiness  chintziness  daintiness