noun
Meaning 1
The property of being slim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
slimness
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noun
Meaning 2
The result or product of being slim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the property of an attractively thin person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slenderness, slightness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leanness, thinness, spareness
noun
Meaning 4
a small margin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory
- the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: narrow margin, narrowness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: margin
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English slim 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 slimness From slim + -ness.