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Definition: Sparseness |
SparsenessNoun1. The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SparsenessSynonyms: spareness (n), sparsity (n). (additional references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | There are territories, such as South-West Africa and certain of the South Pacific Islands, which, owing to the sparseness of their population, or their small size, or their remoteness from the centres of civilisation, or their geographical contiguity to the territory of the Mandatory, and other circumstances, can be best administered under the laws of the Mandatory as integral portions of its territory, subject to the safeguards above mentioned in the interests of the indigenous population. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sparseness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sparseness" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sparseness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Seltenheiten (infrequency, rarities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπανιότησ (rareness, rarity, scarceness), σπανιότητα (infrequency, rareness, rarity, scarceness, scarcity), αραιότησ (rareness, rarity, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness), αραιότητα (rareness, rarity, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לילות (dilution, sparsity, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ritkásság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arsenessspay редкость (curio, curiosity, rara avis, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sparsity, sparsness, white crow). (various references) escasez (dearth, famine, lack, meanness, need, parsimony, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stinginess, tightness, want). (various references) gleshet (sparsity). (various references) seyreklik (infrequency, rareness, rarity, sparsity, thinness), kıtlık (dearth, drought, exiguity, failure, famine, paucity, penury, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, slimness, sparsity), aralıklı olma (sparsity). (various references) tính chất thưa thớt (thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sparseness": sparsenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sparseness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Psusennes, sarsenet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sparseness" (pronounced 'Sparse"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: spareness. | |
-2 letters: asperses, reassess, repasses. | |
-3 letters: asepses, asperse, pareses, passers, presses, sarsens, serapes, spenses. | |
-4 letters: arpens, aspens, aspers, assess, erases, nesses, parses, passee, passer, passes, peasen, peases, perses, prases, preens, ranees, repass, sarees, sarsen, sasses, senses, sepses, serape, snares, sneaps, sneers, spares, sparse, speans, spears, speers, spense, sprees. | |
-5 letters: apers, apres, apses, arpen, arses, aspen. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: sharpnesses, sparenesses. | |
+2 letters: salespersons, sparsenesses, spessartines. | |
+3 letters: scrappinesses. | |
+4 letters: graspingnesses, pastoralnesses, persuasiveness, prankishnesses, separatenesses, vaporishnesses, vaporousnesses. | |
+5 letters: amorphousnesses, desperatenesses, disparatenesses, pervasivenesses, rapaciousnesses, rapturousnesses, separablenesses, spiritualnesses, superablenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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