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• n  the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
• n  the property of having little body fat

• But the spareness of Forbes' flat tax is deceptive.
• Kaysen's wood-frame home in Cambridge, only two blocks from Harvard Square, displays the same elegant spareness as her writing.
• But the quiet and spareness of his pictures, the sense of longing and abandonment, of having exacted the maximum effect from the minimum means, may be a reaction against his father .

• sparseness
• sparsity
• thinness
• leanness

• fatness

News & Articles

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• King exhibition is a metaphor for the activist's life: Brief but powerful
  WASHINGTON — There is an artful spareness to the "One Life: Martin Luther King Jr." exhibit, which opened Friday at the National Portrait Gallery. It recognizes that a life so significant, outsized and fully chronicled can sometimes be best served in a presentation that acts as metaphor for that life — brief and powerful.
  July 2, 2013 - The Saratogian