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noun
The property of being lean, without excess or fat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the property of having little body fat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: thinness, spareness
Antonyms: fatness
Broader terms: bodily property
Narrower terms: skinniness, scrawniness, bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration, slenderness, slightness, slimness, wiriness
noun
the quality of being meager-George Eliot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
Narrower terms: wateriness, abstemiousness, sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness
History
From Middle English lenenesse, equivalent to lean + -ness.
Across languages
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
