Part of speech: Noun
the quality of being meager
Example: an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
Categories: Insufficiency, Inadequacy, Deficiency
meager – A related word in the same word family.
ness – A related word in the same word family.
English's willingness to borrow from any language makes it one of the largest vocabularies in the world.