LEANNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The property of having little body fat

Synonyms:

leanness; spareness; thinness

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)

Meaning:

The quality of being meager

Example:

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

Synonyms:

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)