LITHENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does litheness mean? 

• LITHENESS (noun)
  The noun LITHENESS has 1 sense:

1. the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple

  Familiarity information: LITHENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITHENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lissomeness; litheness; suppleness

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

gracefulness (beautiful carriage)

Derivation:

lithe (gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease)

 Context examples 

There were, it is true, no finer or braver men in the room than Jackson and Jem Belcher, the one with his magnificent figure, his small waist and Herculean shoulders; the other as graceful as an old Grecian statue, with a head whose beauty many a sculptor had wished to copy, and with those long, delicate lines in shoulder and loins and limbs, which gave him the litheness and activity of a panther.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)