NOUN | attribute | leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity | the quality of being meager |
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attribute | leanness, thinness, spareness | the property of having little body fat |
Meaning | The quality of being meager. | |
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Synonyms | meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity | |
Narrower | abstemiousness | restricted to bare necessities |
sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness | The property of being scanty or scattered | |
wateriness | meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) | |
Broader | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
Spanish | escasez, exigüidad, poquedad | |
Adjectives | lean | lacking in mineral content or combustible material |
lean | containing little excess | |
lean | not profitable or prosperous |
Meaning | The property of having little body fat. | |
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Synonyms | thinness, spareness | |
Narrower | bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration | extreme / extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) |
skinniness, scrawniness | The bodily property of lacking flesh | |
slenderness, slightness, slimness | The property of an attractively thin person | |
wiriness | The property of being lean and tough and sinewy | |
Broader | bodily property | An attribute of the body |
Opposite | fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois | excess bodily weight |
Spanish | delgadez, flacura, flaqueza, magrez, magrura | |
Catalan | primària | |
Adjectives | lean | lacking excess flesh |
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