SPARENESS

leanness, thinness, spareness

(noun) the property of having little body fat

sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness

(noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

spareness (countable and uncountable, plural sparenesses)

(uncountable) The state or quality of being spare.

(countable, rare) The result or product of being spare.

Source: Wiktionary


Spare"ness, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. spærnis frugality.]

Definition: The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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