[syn: slenderness, slightness, slimness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Slightness \Slight"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness;
feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence;
indifference; disregard.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
slightness
n 1: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
[syn: pettiness, triviality, slightness, puniness]
2: smallness of stature [syn: delicacy, slightness]
3: the property of an attractively thin person [syn:
slenderness, slightness, slimness]