leanness

leanness
noun
1. the quality of being meager
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"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot

• Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness, ↑exiguity
• Derivationally related forms:
↑exiguous (for: ↑exiguity), ↑scant (for: ↑scantness), ↑scanty (for: ↑scantiness), ↑poor (for: ↑poorness), ↑lean, ↑meagre (for: ↑meagreness), ↑meager (for: ↑meagerness)
• Hypernyms: ↑insufficiency, ↑inadequacy, ↑deficiency
• Hyponyms: ↑wateriness, ↑abstemiousness, ↑sparseness, ↑spareness, ↑sparsity, ↑thinness
2. the property of having little body fat
• Syn: ↑thinness, ↑spareness
• Ant: ↑fatness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑thin (for: ↑thinness), ↑lean
• Hypernyms: ↑bodily property
• Hyponyms:

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  • leanness — O.E. hlænnesse; see LEAN (Cf. lean) (adj.) + NESS (Cf. ness) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • leanness — noun see lean III …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • leanness — See leanly. * * * …   Universalium

  • leanness — noun The property of being lean, without excess or fat …   Wiktionary

  • leanness — lean·ness || lɪːnnɪs n. thinness, slimness; meagerness, spareness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • leanness — lean·ness …   English syllables

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