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Thinness

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being thin. uncountable, usually

    "The beautiful prismatic colours seen on the Labrodore stone are owing to a similar cause, viz. the thinness of the laminæ of which it consists […]."

  2. 2
    a consistency of low viscosity wordnet
  3. 3
    the property of having little body fat wordnet
  4. 4
    relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width wordnet
  5. 5
    the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness wordnet
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  1. 6
    the property of being very narrow or thin wordnet
  2. 7
    The property of lacking substance or strength. wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English thynnesse, from Old English þynnes (“thinness, slightness of density, lack of density, tenuity, fluidity, poverty, feebleness of sight, weakness”), equivalent to thin + -ness.

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