[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]