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spareness

DEFINITIONS OF: spareness

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n the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

Synonyms:
sparseness, sparsity, thinness
Type of:
exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
the quality of being meager

n the property of having little body fat

Synonyms:
leanness, thinness
Antonyms:
avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness
excess bodily weight
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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
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