GAUNTNESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Synonyms:

boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("gauntness" is a kind of...):

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

gaunt (very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold)

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