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BONINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boniness mean?
• BONINESS (noun)
The noun BONINESS has 1 sense:
1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
Familiarity information: BONINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration
Hypernyms ("boniness" is a kind of...):
leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)
Derivation:
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