Thinness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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: {tenuity}, {slenderness}]
            [ant: {thickness}]
       2: the property of having little body fat [syn: {leanness}]
          [ant: {fatness}]
       3: the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at
          the fineness of her hair" [syn: {fineness}]
       4: a consistency of low viscosity; "he disliked the thinness of
          the soup" [ant: {thickness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "thinness":
     Lenten fare, admission of light, airiness, airy nothing,
     airy texture, attenuation, austerity, bodilessness, chinchiness,
     chintziness, clarity, clearness, crystal-clearness, crystallinity,
     deadness, delicacy, diaphaneity, diaphanousness, dilutedness,
     dilution, ethereality, exiguity, exiguousness, exility, fewness,
     filminess, fineness, flatness, flavorlessness, flightiness,
     flimsiness, fluffiness, frailty, frivolousness, frothiness,
     gauziness, glassiness, glasslikeness, gossameriness, gracility,
     immateriality, inanity, incorporeality, infrequency, insipidity,
     insipidness, insolidity, insubstantiality, jejuneness, jejunity,
     laciness, lack of depth, leanness, lifelessness, lightness,
     limpidity, lucidity, meagerness, meanness, mildness, miserliness,
     mistiness, narrowness, niggardliness, nonopacity, paltriness,
     paperiness, parsimony, paucity, pellucidity, puniness, rareness,
     rarity, restrictedness, saplessness, savorlessness, scantiness,
     scantness, scarcity, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shallow-wittedness,
     shallowness, sheerness, show-through, skimpiness, slenderness,
     slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, spareness,
     sparseness, sparsity, staleness, stinginess, stringency, subtility,
     subtilty, subtlety, superficiality, tastelessness, tenuity,
     tenuousness, tightness, transmission of light, transparence,
     transparency, transpicuousness, uncloudedness, unprofoundness,
     unprofundity, unsavoriness, unsubstantiality, vagueness, vapidity,
     vitreosity, vitreousness, vitrescence, volatility, wateriness,
     weakness, wishy-washiness, wispiness