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leanness
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Noun leanness has 2 senses
- leanness(n = noun.attribute) exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes" is a kind of deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
- leanness(n = noun.attribute) spareness, thinness - the property of having little body fat; Array is a kind of bodily property
has particulars: wateriness, abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness
Derived forms adjective lean4, adjective lean2, adjective lean3
has particulars: scrawniness, skinniness, boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration, slenderness, slightness, slimness, wiriness
Antonym: fatness
Derived form adjective lean1
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