"meagerness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: meagernesses [plural]
Etymology: From meager + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|meager|ness}} meager + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} meagerness (countable and uncountable, plural meagernesses)
  1. (US) The state of being meager. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Synonyms: meagreness [Commonwealth] Translations (state of being meager): maigreur [feminine] (French), Knappheit [feminine] (German), ضعیفلق (zaʼiflık) (Ottoman Turkish), ску́дность (skúdnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)

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