sparsity
noun
the fact or condition of being thinly scattered or distributed and not thick or dense.
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, the script’s sparseness too often bleeds into the dialogue which, at times, sounds remarkably wan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
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
It felt like old times, even with the sparseness of the audience.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2020
Fortunately, we had advance knowledge of the sparseness of settlement along the river, and had come with a tent and a cooking outfit, prepared for camping in case of need.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
