Synonyms for sparseness
- dearth
- insufficiency
- smallness
- absence
- deficiency
- famine
- fewness
- meagerness
- paltriness
- poverty
- rarity
- scantiness
- scarceness
- shortage
- slenderness
- slightness
- sparsity
- insufficience
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Antonyms for sparseness
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WORD ORIGIN
1727, from Latin sparsus "scattered," past participle of spargere "to scatter, spread," from PIE root *(s)pregh- "to jerk, scatter" (cf. Sanskrit parjanya- "rain, rain god," Avestan fra-sparega "branch, twig," literally "that which is jerked off a tree," Old Norse freknur "freckles," Swedish dialectal sprygg "brisk, active," Lithuanian sprogti "shoot, bud," Old Irish arg "a drop").
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