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Definition of Thinness
1. Noun. Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width. "The thinness of a rope"
Generic synonyms: Dimension
Derivative terms: Slender, Slender, Tenuous, Thin
Antonyms: Thickness
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
3. Noun. The property of being very narrow or thin. "He marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
4. 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
5. Noun. A consistency of low viscosity. "He disliked the thinness of the soup"
Specialized synonyms: Fluidity, Fluidness, Liquidity, Liquidness, Runniness, Wateriness
Antonyms: Thickness
Derivative terms: Thin
Definition of Thinness
1. n. The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
Definition of Thinness
1. Noun. The state of being thin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thinness
1. the quality or state of being thin [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thinness
Literary usage of Thinness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Photographer by Roger Child Bayley (1906)
"CHAPTER XII INTENSIFICATION AND REDUCTION Intensification—Different processes
required by different forms of thinness—Fog— Different reduction ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The Japanese make their toothpicks from fine reeds, which they shave down to the
thinness of paper, retaining the reed's strength and pliability. ..."
3. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and by John Ramsey McCulloch (1852)
"Considering the immense variety of valuable natural productions with which Russia
abound«, the thinness of the population, and the slavery and ignorance of ..."
4. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"Skill in hunting.—A bead almanac.—The snn as a compass.—thinness of population.
THIRD IN some parts of these forests I saw the Vanilla growing Jo'U.NM. ..."
5. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1824)
"When the insect is on the wing, the waving of the elytra, (whose thinness renders
the spots thereon transparent,) assisted by the luminous quality peculiar ..."
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