leanness

Definitions of leanness

1. noun

   the property of having little body fat
   synonyms: spareness, thinness

   antonyms:

   fatness

   excess bodily weight

   types:

   scrawniness, skinniness

   the bodily property of lacking flesh

   boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration

   extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

   slenderness, slightness, slimness

   the property of an attractively thin person

   wiriness

   the property of being lean and tough and sinewy

   type of:

   bodily property

   an attribute of the body
2. noun

   the quality of being meager
   synonyms: exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness

   types:

   wateriness

   meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food)

   abstemiousness

   restricted to bare necessities

   spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness

   the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

   type of:

   deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency

   lack of an adequate quantity or number