sparseness

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He cautioned that this is “particularly challenging region of the world” to investigate in this kind of study, however, because of a relative sparseness of meteorological data and the complex climatology of the area.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 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

That sparseness may have been the result of the speed with which Nicks wrote “Dreams.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019

This sparseness of growth, and comparative absence of shade, is one marked characteristic of Florida’s pine woods.

From The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 by MacCauley, Clay