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
The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
