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leanness

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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