Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scantiness \Scant"i*ness\, n.
   Quality or condition of being scanty.

Source : WordNet®

scantiness
     n : the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that
         would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: {meagerness},
          {meagreness}, {poorness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}]