Synonyms & related words for exiguity

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of exiguity — including scantness, meagerness, scantiness, exiguousness, skimpiness, leanness. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to exiguity

Explore words related to exiguity — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include exiguous, exiguously, poorness, scrimpy, scanty, meager, meagerly, scarceness. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for exiguity

Common synonyms for exiguity include scantness, meagerness, scantiness, exiguousness, skimpiness, leanness, paucity, sparseness — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does exiguity come from?

The word exiguity breaks down into 3 roots of Latin origin: ex-, from Latin ex (“out”); igu, from Latin agere (“to drive, weigh out (scanty)”); and -ity, from Latin itas (“quality of”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.