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

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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