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leanness
noun as in scantiness
noun as in scantness
noun as in scarceness
noun as in shortage
Weak match
noun as in thinness
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He spread his hands, long and almost transparent in their leanness, and on his face a cloud of sorrow rested.
In this same class might also be found leanness and slimness, which form a class different from the four preceding ideas.
There is, of course, a certain kind of leanness which is the result of ill health.
That is not the kind of leanness that I mean, but the active, wiry leanness, which sometimes lives a hundred years.
God gave her that to which she aspired, and which so many envy; but "He sent leanness into her soul."
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On this page you'll find 179 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leanness, such as: curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, and deficit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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