spareness

Definitions of spareness
  1. noun
    the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
    synonyms: sparseness, sparsity, thinness
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    exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness
    the quality of being meager
  2. noun
    the property of having little body fat
    synonyms: leanness, thinness
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    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
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    bodily property
    an attribute of the body
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