SLENDERNESS

slenderness, slightness, slimness

(noun) the property of an attractively thin person

thinness, tenuity, slenderness

(noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; “the tenuity of a hair”; “the thinness of a rope”

slenderness

(noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate; “he knew the slenderness of my wallet”; “the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done”; “the slenderness of the evidence”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

slenderness (usually uncountable, plural slendernesses)

The property of being slender.

Source: Wiktionary



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