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What is the noun for sparing?

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spare
  1. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
  2. Parsimony; frugal use.
  3. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
  4. That which has not been used or expended.
  5. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
  6. (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
  7. (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
  8. (Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. replacement, reserve, backup, extra, standby, substitute, stand-in, fill-in, cover, relief, alternate, sub, auxiliary, locum, locum tenens, pinch hitter, designated hitter, fallback, alternative, surrogate, double, successor, accompaniment, deputy, support, secondary, succedaneum, pinch-hitter, second string, stand-by, proxy, understudy, stopgap, backfill, part, spare part, ring-in, new part, someone else, reinforcement, fall-back, representative, delegate, agent, factor, supply, second, temp, makeshift, envoy … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “We promptly replaced the burnt-out fuse with a spare.”
sparsing
  1. The act or process of making something sparse
  2. (mathematics) The reduction to zero of elements of a matrix
sparseness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being sparse.
  2. (countable, rare) The result or product of being sparse.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. scarcity, scantiness, scarceness, meagerness, bareness, thinness, inadequacy, insufficiency, shortage, deficiency, lack, dearth, want, deficit, paucity, undersupply, inadequateness, pinch, crunch, meagreness, poverty, drouth, exiguity, famine, drought, lacuna, failure, shortfall, absence, sparsity, exiguousness, scantness, rareness, limitedness, rarity, restrictedness, deprivation, insufficience, skimpiness, shortness, infrequency, unavailability, leanness, tightness, curtailment, uncommonness, need, privation, paltriness, default … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The sparseness of the set does nothing to enhance the already emotionally Spartan feel of the play.”
      “It eschews the sparseness of much fashionable sport writing and is unashamedly rich and stylish.”
      “There is little trace of the funereal bedroom sparseness of Cohen's early albums.”
spareness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being spare.
  2. (countable, rare) The result or product of being spare.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. simplicity, plainness, starkness, restraint, severity, simpleness, cleanness, austerity, primitiveness, austereness, unsophistication, ordinariness, minimalism, monotony, uncomplicatedness, uniformity, absence of adornment, absence of decoration, absence of embellishment, absence of ornament, absence of ornamentation, classic lines, clean lines, lack of decoration, lack of ornament, lack of ornamentation, absence of clutter, lack of adornment, lack of embellishment, lack of clutter, lack of sophistication, bareness, elementariness, unfussiness, functionalism, economy, scarcity, barrenness, shortage, baldness, rusticism, spartanism, dourness, unadornment, Spartanism, emptiness, vacuity, vacantness, vacancy, nakedness … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “And where Lean's similarly epic Dr Zhivago was hampered by a silly, overwrought plot, this has a clean spareness to it.”
      “The spareness of her art during this period perfectly mirrored her ascetic tendencies and feelings of self-deprivation.”
      “But this spareness is as nothing compared with the artistic exiguity of the proceedings.”
sparsity
  1. The property of being sparse; sparseness.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. paucity, lack, scarcity, shortage, dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, want, inadequacy, deficit, scarceness, scantiness, poverty, undersupply, famine, drought, shortfall, inadequateness, pinch, absence, crunch, failure, drouth, lacuna, sparseness, meagreness, rareness, exiguity, rarity, insufficience, limitedness, skimpiness, meagerness, paltriness, restrictedness, slightness, fewness, slenderness, smallness, scantness, unavailability, exiguousness, need, infrequency, curtailment, bareness, leanness, tightness, privation, shortness … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This is due to the relative sparsity of development in the post-medieval period.”
      “The remoteness of the islands and the sparsity of the population makes Yap one of the last bastions for true Micronesian culture, unsullied by outside influences.”
      “The use of sparsity in source separation has begun during the years 2000 with the power increase in computers.”
sparing
  1. The act by which something or someone is spared.
sparingness
  1. The property of being sparing.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frugality, thrift, thriftiness, husbandry, parsimony, providence, economy, scrimping, prudence, saving, skimping, miserliness, economizing, stinginess, frugalness, carefulness, restraint, abstemiousness, austerity, economising, good management, penny-pinching, meanness, canniness, caution, forehandedness, careful budgeting, scrimping and saving, regulation, budgeting, cutback, parcity, good husbandry, moderation, sophrosyne, vigilance, temperance, conservation, discretion, careful management, rollback in spending, reduction in spending, good housekeeping, retrenchment, management, pinching, cutting, abridgement, moratorium, decrease … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The floor-to-ceiling windows and doors provide the spatial sparingness with a certain noblesse.”
sparer
  1. One who or that which spares.
sparsenesses
  1. plural of sparseness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scarcities, scantinesses, scarceness, meagernesses, barenesses, thinnesses, insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, lacks, shortages, wants, dearths, paucities, poverties, deficits, meagrenesses, exiguities, inadequatenesses, pinches, crunches, drouths, famines, droughts, lacunas, failures, shortfalls, absences, sparsities, limitedness, exiguousness, scantness, rarenesses, restrictedness, rarities, skimpiness, shortnesses, deprivations, paltrinesses, leanness, needs, privations, insufficience, slightnesses, infrequencies, sparenesses, destitutions, unavailabilities, poornesses, smallnesses … more
sparenesses
  1. plural of spareness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. simplicities, plainnesses, starknesses, restraints, severities, simplenesses, cleannesses, austerities, primitivenesses, austereness, unsophistication, ordinarinesses, minimalisms, monotonies, uncomplicatedness, uniformities, barenesses, functionalisms, elementariness, unfussiness, economies, scarcities, shortages, barrennesses, rusticisms, baldnesses, dournesses, unadornment, ease, emptinesses, easinesses, opennesses, facilities, drabnesses, vacantness, naturalnesses, dullnesses, straightforwardness, vacancies, sobernesses, thinnesses, sparsenesses, scantinesses, sparsities, meagernesses, shallownesses, inadequacies, scarceness … more
sparsities
  1. plural of sparsity
  2. Synonyms:
      3. paucities, lacks, scarcities, shortages, dearths, deficiencies, insufficiencies, wants, inadequacies, deficits, scarceness, scantinesses, poverties, famines, droughts, shortfalls, inadequatenesses, pinches, absences, crunches, failures, drouths, lacunas, sparsenesses, meagrenesses, rarenesses, exiguities, rarities, insufficience, limitedness, skimpiness, meagernesses, paltrinesses, restrictedness, slightnesses, fewnesses, slendernesses, smallnesses, scantness, unavailabilities, exiguousness, needs, infrequencies, curtailments, barenesses, leanness, tightnesses, privations, shortnesses, uncommonnesses … more
sparings
  1. plural of sparing
sparers
  1. plural of sparer
spares
  1. plural of spare
  2. Synonyms:
      3. replacement, reserve, backups, extras, standbys, substitutes, fill-ins, stand-ins, subs, relief, covers, alternates, pinch hitters, locums, designated hitters, auxiliaries, locum tenentes, fallbacks, successors, surrogates, doubles, alternatives, deputies, pinch-hitters, stand-bys, accompaniment, succedaneums, second strings, support, secondaries, backfill, proxies, stopgaps, understudies, ring-ins, spare parts, parts, reinforcement, fall-backs, plan B, contingency plans, contingency, delegates, representatives, temps, supply, seconds, temporaries, plan C, substitution … more
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