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SPARENESS
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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 ("spareness" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spareness"):
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
Synonyms:
spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("spareness" is a kind of...):
exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness (the quality of being meager)
Derivation:
spare (lacking in magnitude or quantity)
spare (thin and fit)
