noun
Meaning 1
The property of being slender.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
slenderness
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noun
Meaning 2
The quotient between the height and the width of a building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: architecture, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the property of an attractively thin person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slightness, slimness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leanness, thinness, spareness
noun
Meaning 4
relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the tenuity of a hair
- the thinness of a rope
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thinness, tenuity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dimension
noun
Meaning 5
the quality of being slight or inadequate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he knew the slenderness of my wallet
- the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done
- the slenderness of the evidence
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English slender Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English slenderness From slender + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: esveltesa — property of being slender
- Czech: štíhlost — property of being slender
- Czech: útlost — property of being slender
- French: sveltesse — property of being slender
- German: Schlankheit — property of being slender
- Irish: caoile — property of being slender
- Latin: gracilitās — property of being slender
- Latvian: slaidums — property of being slender
- Latvian: slaikums — property of being slender
- Spanish: esbeltez — property of being slender