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NOUN (5)

1. relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width;
- Example: "the tenuity of a hair"
- Example: "the thinness of a rope"
[syn: thinness, tenuity, slenderness]

2. the property of having little body fat;
[syn: leanness, thinness, spareness]

3. the property of being very narrow or thin;
- Example: "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
[syn: fineness, thinness]

4. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness;
[syn: sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness]

5. a consistency of low viscosity;
- Example: "he disliked the thinness of the soup"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thinness \Thin"ness\, n. The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thinness n 1: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope" [syn: thinness, tenuity, slenderness] [ant: thickness] 2: the property of having little body fat [syn: leanness, thinness, spareness] [ant: avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness] 3: the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair" [syn: fineness, thinness] 4: the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness [syn: sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness] 5: a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of the soup" [ant: thickness]