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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being meager;
- Example: "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
[syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Leanness \Lean"ness\, n. [AS. hl[=ae]nnes.] The condition or quality of being lean. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

leanness n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity] 2: the property of having little body fat [syn: leanness, thinness, spareness] [ant: avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness]