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Definition of Spareness
1. Noun. The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness.
Generic synonyms: Exiguity, Leanness, Meagerness, Meagreness, Poorness, Scantiness, Scantness
Derivative terms: Spare, Spare, Sparse, Sparse, Thin, Thin
2. Noun. The property of having little body fat.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spareness
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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