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GAUNTNESS
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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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