à¦à¦²à§à¦ªà¦¤à¦¾ shortness, paucity, exiguity, shortage, frugality, penury à¦¸à§à¦¬à¦²à§à¦ªà¦¤à¦¾ frugality, fewness, penurity, penury, exiguity, leanness à¦¨à¦¿à¦¸à§à¦¬à¦¤à¦¾ penury, penurity, frugality, leanness, exiguity à¦¦à§à¦¨à¦¤à¦¾ penury, leanness, need, indigence, affliction, exiguity abstemiousness scantiness leanness inadequacy meagreness spareness scantness insufficiency sparseness thinness poorness sparsity meagerness wateriness deficiency. (noun): the quality of being meager After two months at sea, the exiguity of the ship\\'s supplies forced them to search for fresh water and food.