Slightness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being slight, smallness, petiteness

    "Poor nutrition explained his slightness."

  2. 2
    the property of an attractively thin person wordnet
  3. 3
    slenderness wordnet
  4. 4
    the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous wordnet

Synonyms

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airinessausteritybig dealcollapsedaintinessdelicacy

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"Poor nutrition explained his slightness."

Etymology

From slight + -ness.

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