sparseness

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But most of all, the song is an unadorned message directly to his wife, hence its simplicity, its sparseness, the intimacy of the vocal.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023

Yet the sparseness of Beethoven's sketches made it impossible for symphony experts to go beyond that first movement.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2021

The sparseness of trees and other vegetation near the peaks means that when fires do start in, or move to, those elevations, “they don’t get very big, and they run out of fuel,” Kolden says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2021

Cooper says, “He was really spare, and that sparseness had an effect on me.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

The sparseness of these woods may be in part attributed to the practice of tapping the trees for their turpentine, which has caused them for a century past to be gradually thinned by consequent decay.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various