Thinness
['θɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a consistency of low viscosity; 'he disliked the thinness of the soup'.
(noun.) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; 'the tenuity of a hair'; 'the thinness of a rope'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Slenderness, fineness, exility.[2]. Rarity, rareness, tenuity, subtility, etherealness.[3]. Sparseness, scantiness, paucity, fewness.
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Examples
- Her thinness seemed to be the effect of some wasting fire within her, which found a vent in her gaunt eyes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Close at his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle size, but of an exceeding thinness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- These ingots are passed between steel rollers till they form long ribbons of such thinness that a square inch will weigh six and one-half grains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And in like manner does the touch adequately perceive the qualities of thickness or thinness, of softness or hardness? Plato. The Republic.
- He was about the middle height, but the thinness of his body, and the length of his legs, gave him the appearance of being much taller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Edison finally decided to apply a preliminary metallic coating of infinitesimal thinness, and accomplished this object by a remarkable process known as the vacuous deposit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Don't you see a thinness in him? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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