The quality or condition of being thinly dispersed or scattered. The sparseness of trees in the desert landscape was noticeable.
The state of being scanty or insufficient in quantity or number. The sparseness of the crowd at the concert was surprising given the popularity of the band.
In mathematics and computing, the property of a matrix, vector, or dataset in which most elements are zero or absent. The algorithm exploits the sparseness of the matrix to reduce memory usage.