Definition of Spareness

1. Noun. The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness.


2. Noun. The property of having little body fat.
Exact synonyms: Leanness, Thinness
Generic synonyms: Bodily Property
Specialized synonyms: Scrawniness, Skinniness, Boniness, Bonyness, Emaciation, Gauntness, Maceration, Slenderness, Slightness, Slimness, Wiriness
Antonyms: Fatness
Derivative terms: Lean, Thin

Definition of Spareness

1. n. The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

Definition of Spareness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being spare. ¹

2. Noun. (countable rare) The result or product of being spare. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spareness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spareness

spare time
spare tire
spare tire well
spare tire wells
spare tires
spare tyre
spare tyre well
spare tyre wells
spare tyres
spare wheel
spareable
spared
spareful
spareless
sparely
spareness (current term)
sparenesses
sparer
sparerib
spareribs
sparers
spares
sparest
spareth
sparfloxacin
sparganoma
sparganosis
sparganum
sparge
sparge pipe

Literary usage of Spareness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Dental Association at Its ... Annual Session by American Dental Association (1875)
"... resisting such action 'i We are told by Headland, that " alkalies dissolve fats and cause spareness of the system." What then? spareness of the system— ..."

2. Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political, Social, Literary, and Scientific by Hugh Miller (1865)
"The three great military doers of the Anglo-Saxon race were all alike remarkable for their sobriety of mind and spareness of imagination, and for exactly ..."

3. A wayward woman by Arthur Griffiths (1879)
"In the schoolroom her daughters were half starved, and the spareness of their frames in after life was in a measure due to the spareness of their childish ..."

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