LEANNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leanness mean? 

• LEANNESS (noun)
  The noun LEANNESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being meager

2. the property of having little body fat

  Familiarity information: LEANNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEANNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being meager

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness

Context example:

an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes

Hypernyms ("leanness" is a kind of...):

deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leanness"):

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)

Derivation:

lean (not profitable or prosperous)

lean (lacking in mineral content or combustible material)

lean (containing little excess)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of having little body fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

leanness; spareness; thinness

Hypernyms ("leanness" is a kind of...):

bodily property (an attribute of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leanness"):

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)

Antonym:

fatness (excess bodily weight)

Derivation:

lean (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

Clinical manifestation of excessive leanness usually caused by disease or a lack of nutrition.

(Emaciation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)