noun. The state of being spare, lean, or thin; leanness.

noun. The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

noun. The state or quality of being spare.

noun. The result or product of being spare.

noun. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

noun. the property of having little body fat

"I can see the shape of the wind on the water. [italics mine] Anyone who can write sentences like those italicised above, deceptively simple, or glancingly suggest that we're not so very different from those titmice, as well as set mood, scene, and theme with such spareness, is a seriously good writer."

thing  

exiguity  leanness  meagerness  meagreness  poorness  

inamerica  pauperization  plumpness  scantiness  slenderness  

leanness  

spare