Leanness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition or quality of being lean; poorness; meagerness.
  • noun. Unproductiveness; emptiness.
  • noun. Synonyms Spareness, lankness, gauntness, skinniness, poorness, emaciation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The condition or quality of being lean.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The property of being lean, without excess or fat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the property of having little body fat
  • noun. the quality of being meager
  • Word Usage
    "Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae."
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