The quality or state of being extremely small, meager, or scanty in amount.
From Latin exiguitas, derived from exiguus meaning 'small, meager, scanty.' The suffix -ity converts the adjective into a noun representing the abstract quality of smallness.
This is the perfect word for describing not just a small salary, but the crushing *feeling* of scarcity itself — it's meagerness elevated to a principle.
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