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English noun: thinness | |||
| 1. | thinness (attribute) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | ||
| Samples | The tenuity of a hair. The thinness of a rope. | ||
| Synonyms | slenderness, tenuity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dimension | ||
| Antonyms | thickness | ||
| 2. | thinness (attribute) the property of having little body fat | ||
| Synonyms | leanness, spareness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bodily property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration, scrawniness, skinniness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, wiriness | ||
| Antonyms | fatness, avoirdupois, blubber, fat | ||
| 3. | thinness (attribute) the property of being very narrow or thin | ||
| Samples | He marvelled at the fineness of her hair. | ||
| Synonyms | fineness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | narrowness | ||
| 4. | thinness (attribute) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | ||
| Synonyms | spareness, sparseness, sparsity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness | ||
| 5. | thinness (attribute) a consistency of low viscosity | ||
| Samples | He disliked the thinness of the soup. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body, consistence, consistency, eubstance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness, wateriness | ||
| Antonyms | thickness | ||
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