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leanness

DEFINITIONS OF: leanness

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n the property of having little body fat

Synonyms:
spareness, thinness
Antonyms:
avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness
excess bodily weight
Types:
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scrawniness, skinniness
the bodily property of lacking flesh
boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration
extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
slenderness, slightness, slimness
the property of an attractively thin person
wiriness
the property of being lean and tough and sinewy
Type of:
bodily property
an attribute of the body

n the quality of being meager

Synonyms:
exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
Types:
wateriness
meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)
abstemiousness
restricted to bare necessities
spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness
the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
Type of:
deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
lack of an adequate quantity or number
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