- a variation of sparsity.
sparseness
Example Sentences
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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
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
What surprises an American at first, even in Connaught, is the apparent sparseness of population, and he wonders if this can indeed be that over-populated Ireland of which he has heard so much.
From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas
