- the fact or condition of being thinly scattered or distributed and not thick or dense: The size of these rural counties and the sparsity of their populations make it more costly to administer social services.
- the fact or quality of being small in amount or number; scantiness: Not only is there a sparsity of rainfall in extremely arid deserts, but high evaporation rates soon remove whatever moisture it provides.
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