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THINNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A consistency of low viscosity
Example:
he disliked the thinness of the soup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thinness" is a kind of...):
body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thinness"):
fluidity; fluidness; liquidity; liquidness; runniness (the property of flowing easily)
wateriness (the property of resembling the viscosity of water)
Antonym:
thickness (resistance to flow)
Derivation:
thin (relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of having little body fat
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thinness" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thinness"):
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)
Derivation:
thin (lacking excess flesh)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
Example:
the thinness of a rope
Synonyms:
slenderness; tenuity; thinness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thinness" is a kind of...):
dimension (the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height))
Antonym:
thickness (the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width)
Derivation:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
Synonyms:
spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thinness" is a kind of...):
exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)
Derivation:
thin ((of sound) lacking resonance or volume)
thin (lacking substance or significance)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The property of being very narrow or thin
Example:
he marvelled at the fineness of her hair
Synonyms:
fineness; thinness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("thinness" is a kind of...):
narrowness (the property of being narrow; having little width)
Derivation:
thin (very narrow)
