English noun: spareness |
1. | spareness (attribute) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness |
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| Synonyms | sparseness, sparsity, thinness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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2. | spareness (attribute) the property of having little body fat |
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| Synonyms | leanness, thinness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bodily property |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration, scrawniness, skinniness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, wiriness |
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| Antonyms | fatness, avoirdupois, blubber, fat |
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