Crossword-Solution: SPARSENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sparseness | n. | The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SPARSENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Boondocks quality | 1 answer |
| Characteristic of desert vegetation | 1 answer |
| Characteristic of minimalist design | 1 answer |
| Meager characteristic | 1 answer |
| fruitlessness | 4 answers |
| scantiness | 22 answers |
| Emptiness | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPARSENESS (5)
There is neither poverty of soil nor species to account for the sparseness of desert growth, but simply that each plant requires more room.
The sparseness of its settlements, and the extent of its plains, indicate the employment of cavalry--the intricate woods and swamps as strikingly denote the uses and importance of riflemen.
Indeed, if you have spent much time in our Northern forests, you must have often wondered at the sparseness of life, and felt a sense of pity for the apparent loneliness of the squirrel that chatters at you as you pass, or the little bird that hops noiselessly about in the thickets.
Elevated roads in Chicago, owing to the sparseness of the population over large areas, were a serious thing to contemplate.
The salient defect, for more or less interval at first, in all commencing colonial societies, is the disproportion of the female element; and thus, in the sparseness of homes and families, we have that hardness of social feature, which illustrates how much better is the one sex with the "helpmeet" provided in the other.
Quotes with SPARSENESS (2)
It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2002–2022).