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noun the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
originEtymology tree English sparse Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English sparsity From sparse + -ity.
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