spareness

The priest gave it, and the aide held it up, displaying a chill and vacant chamber, furnished with monastic spareness.

It followed that they cultivated that naked plainness and spareness which makes their work supreme.

Despite the spareness of his frame, he climbed the ascent with a rapidity that made him gasp.

He was a tall man, but gave no impression of strength because of the exceeding spareness of his frame.

People judged by his spareness: he wished he could get a little fatter.