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WIRINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being lean and tough and sinewy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wiriness" is a kind of...):
leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)
Derivation:
wiry (lean and sinewy)