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LEANNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of having little body fat
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("leanness" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leanness"):
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)
Antonym:
fatness (excess bodily weight)
Derivation:
lean (lacking excess flesh)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being meager
Example:
an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes
Synonyms:
exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("leanness" is a kind of...):
deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leanness"):
wateriness (meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food))
abstemiousness (restricted to bare necessities)
spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness (the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness)
Derivation:
lean (not profitable or prosperous)
lean (lacking in mineral content or combustible material)
lean (containing little excess)
