scantness

But to the abbots and disciples who first contemplated these paintings, or to the artists who revered them centuries later, their scantness and spontaneity had a religious as well as an aesthetic impulse.

"Wasn't there a good deal of talk about the scantness of some of the ladies' dresses?"

The scantness of the vetting she received before being placed on the Republican ticket.

They mock my wide smile, and my scantness of thatch; I think, though, in managing skill I am—skill I am, All things considered, much more than a match For swaggering, swashing Sir William—Will-i-am!

Not of our subject; for in my concluding lecture I have to deal—with sad scantness—with the Christian Church in other parts of these islands, before and at the coming of Augustine.