Scrawniness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being scrawny. uncountable

    "We threw the fish back because of its scrawniness; there was no meat on it."

  2. 2
    the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality wordnet
  3. 3
    the bodily property of lacking flesh wordnet

Synonyms

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austerityexiguitylantern jawsmeannessparsimonyscantiness

Example

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"We threw the fish back because of its scrawniness; there was no meat on it."

Etymology

From scrawny + -ness.

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