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English noun: leanness | |||
| 1. | leanness (attribute) the quality of being meager | ||
| Samples | An exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes. | ||
| Synonyms | exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness, wateriness | ||
| 2. | leanness (attribute) the property of having little body fat | ||
| Synonyms | spareness, thinness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bodily property | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration, scrawniness, skinniness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, wiriness | ||
| Antonyms | fatness, avoirdupois, blubber, fat | ||
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