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spare-time activity |
spared |
spareful |
spareless |
sparely |
spareness
| sparer
| sparerib
| spareribs
| sparganiaceae
| sparganium
spareness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spareness has 2 senses
- spareness(n = noun.attribute) sparseness, sparsity, thinness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness; Array is a kind of exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
- spareness(n = noun.attribute) leanness, thinness - the property of having little body fat; Array is a kind of bodily property
Derived forms adjective spare5, adjective spare1
has particulars: scrawniness, skinniness, boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration, slenderness, slightness, slimness, wiriness
CIDE DICTIONARY
spareness, n. [Cf. AS. spærnis frugality.].
The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness. [1913 Webster]
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