[f. SPARSE a.] The quality of being sparse; sparsity.
1833. J. Story, Comm. Constit. U. S., III. ix. II. 70. The concentration or sparseness of the population.
1852. Nicolay, in Visct. Ingestre, Meliora, 52. The ‘sparseness,’ to use an Americanism, of the population.
1887. Courier, 7 July, 9/4. One advantage … resulted from the sparseness of the attendance.
