Slenderness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being slender. uncountable, usually

    "England have not beaten their neighbours from across the Channel since 1974 and the slenderness of the scoreline, with the two side’s separated only by Eugénie Le Sommer’s first-half strike, disguises the superiority of a French side now clear favourites to top Group F"

  2. 2
    the property of an attractively thin person wordnet
  3. 3
    relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width wordnet
  4. 4
    the quality of being slight or inadequate wordnet

Synonyms

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airinessausteritybig dealclosenessconfinementdelicacy

Example

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"England have not beaten their neighbours from across the Channel since 1974 and the slenderness of the scoreline, with the two side’s separated only by Eugénie Le Sommer’s first-half strike, disguises the superiority of a French side now clear favourites to top Group F"

Etymology

From slender + -ness.

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