SLENDERNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slenderness mean? 

• SLENDERNESS (noun)
  The noun SLENDERNESS has 3 senses:

1. the quality of being slight or inadequate

2. relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width

3. the property of an attractively thin person

  Familiarity information: SLENDERNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLENDERNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being slight or inadequate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the slenderness of the evidence

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

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

Derivation:

slender (small in quantity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

slenderness; tenuity; thinness

Context example:

the thinness of a rope

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

dimension (the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height))

Derivation:

slender (having little width in proportion to the length or height)

slender (very narrow)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property of an attractively thin person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

slenderness; slightness; slimness

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

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

slender (being of delicate or slender build)

 Context examples 

Skiff Miller, cool and collected, the obstinate flush a trifle deeper on his forehead, his huge muscles bulging under the black cloth of his coat, carefully looked the poet up and down as though measuring the strength of his slenderness.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)