BONINESS

bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration

(noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

boniness (usually uncountable, plural boninesses)

the property or degree of being bony

Anagrams

• benisons

Source: Wiktionary


Bon"i*ness, n.

Definition: The condition or quality of being bony.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

27 September 2024

IDENTIFY

(verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; “She identified the man on the ‘wanted’ poster”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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