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gauntness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gauntness has 1 sense
- gauntness(n = noun.attribute) boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease); Array is a kind of leanness, spareness, thinness
Derived form adjective gaunt1
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